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Aethlon Medical to Present Today At Biotech Showcase 2013
Jan 08, 2013, 08:08 ET
SAN DIEGO, Jan. 8, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Aethlon Medical, Inc. (OTCBB: AEMD), announced that Chief Executive Officer Jim Joyce will give a corporate presentation today at Biotech Showcase 2013. The presentation is scheduled to start at 4:45 p.m. Pacific Standard Time and can be accessed online at http://www.media-server.com/m/p/54bc8kj7. The conference is being held in San Francisco at the Parc 55 Wyndham Union Square Hotel.
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The Biotech Showcase™ is an investor and partnering conference held each year during JP Morgan healthcare week, which attracts investors and biopharmaceutical executives from around the world.
About Aethlon Medical
Aethlon Medical creates innovative medical devices that address unmet medical needs in cancer, infectious disease, and other life-threatening conditions. Our Aethlon ADAPT™ System is a revenue-stage technology platform that provides the basis for a new class of devices the rapid, yet selective removal of disease promoting particles from the entire circulatory system. At present, The Aethlon ADAPT™ product pipeline includes the Aethlon Hemopurifier® to address infectious disease and cancer, and a medical device being developed under a 5-year contract with Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to reduce the incidence of sepsis in combat-injured soldiers. For more information, please visit www.aethlonmedical.com.
About The Aethlon Hemopurifier®
The Aethlon Hemopurifier® is a first-in-class medical device that selectively targets the rapid clearance of infectious viral pathogens and immunosuppressive proteins from the entire circulatory system. In the treatment of Hepatitis C virus (HCV), human studies have demonstrated that Hemopurifier® therapy may improve immediate, rapid and sustained virologic response rates when administered in the first few days of standard-of-care drug therapy. In addition to accelerating viral load depletion, post-treatment analysis of the Hemopurifier® has documented the capture of up to 300 billion HCV copies of HCV during a single six-hour treatment. Access to Hemopurifier® therapy is available on a compassionate-use basis through the Medanta Medicity Institute (Medicity), a leading center for medical tourism in India. The Medicity is offering treatment access to infected individuals who previously failed or subsequently relapsed standard-of-care drug regimens. The Hemopurifier® is also being offered as a salvage therapy to infected individuals who suffer a viral breakthrough during standard-of-care therapy. U.S. studies of the Hemopurifier® are currently pending approval of an IDE submitted to FDA.
The Aethlon Hemopurifier® and Cancer
In addition to the opportunity to address a broad-spectrum of infectious viral pathogens, the Hemopurifier® has been discovered to capture tumor-derived exosomes underlying several forms of cancer. Tumor-derived exosomes have recently emerged to be a vital therapeutic target in cancer care. These microvesicular particles suppress the immune response in cancer patients through apoptosis of immune cells and their quantity in circulation correlates directly with disease progression. Beyond possessing immunosuppressive properties, tumor-derived exosomes facilitate tumor growth, metastasis, and the development of drug resistance. By addressing this unmet medical need, the Hemopurifier® is positioned as an adjunct to improve established cancer treatment regimens.
Certain statements herein may be forward-looking and involve risks and uncertainties. Such forward-looking statements involve assumptions, known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of Aethlon Medical, Inc. to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. Such potential risks and uncertainties include, without limitation, that the FDA will not approve the initiation of the Company's clinical programs or provide market clearance of the company's products, future human studies whether revenue or non-revenue generating from either compassionate use or non-compassionate use of the Aethlon ADAPT™ system or the Aethlon Hemopurifier® as an adjunct therapy to improve patient responsiveness to established cancer or hepatitis C therapies or as a standalone cancer or hepatitis C therapy, the Company's ability to raise capital when needed, the Company's ability to complete the development of its planned products, the Company's ability to manufacture its products either internally or through outside companies and provide its services, the impact of government regulations, patent protection on the Company's proprietary technology, product liability exposure, uncertainty of market acceptance, competition, technological change, and other risk factors. In such instances, actual results could differ materially as a result of a variety of factors, including the risks associated with the effect of changing economic conditions and other risk factors detailed in the Company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. The Company undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise.
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Jim Frakes
Chief Financial Officer
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It's June 1st so it must be Hurricane Season!!!
Published Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 7:20 a.m.
Last updated Sunday, June 1, 2008 at 7:20 a.m.
MIAMI Check the expiration date on that canned food and dust off the hurricane shutters, the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season has officially begun.
Hurricane season began Sunday, the first day of June, and runs through November. The first tropical storm of the season, Arthur, didn't wait for the start of the season. It formed Saturday and quickly made landfall at the Belize-Mexico border.
Federal forecasters in May said there was a good chance the Atlantic season would produce 12 to 16 named storms and two to five major hurricanes. They put the probability of that outcome at 60 to 70 percent. Overall they said there's a 90 percent chance the season will be normal or above average.
You are going to be so miserable this year, SR!Loyalty Binds Me- Motto of Richard III
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I lived in Florida for nine years and he came close to having hurricanes very near us but never had one. Then I moved to the mountain of north Georgia and got Clobbered by one. 100 mph winds and all the damage that brings and heavy rains. IN NORTH GEORGIA!
A family member moved FROM PHOENIX to near Orlando (Sanford) the year those four (or five?) hurricanes came through the area. Talk about going from the frying pan into the fire. They didn't have much damage, but it was quite a baptism of fire.Hey careful man! There's a beverage here!
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Converged 10GbE Switch Module for the Dell™ PowerEdge™ M1000e Modular Blade Enclosure
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Since 2001, investigators from New York's Joint Terrorism Task Force have increasingly employed confidential informants in their efforts to catch terror suspects before they become sophisticated enough to do real harm.
The case against Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis is no different.
The 21-year-old student from Bangladesh appears to have no legitimate connections to al-Qaida, although authorities are still searching.
Nafis also had no apparent source of funds from which he could have financed the murderous plot.
According to the criminal complaint against Nafis, it was a confidential informant — working for the government — who offered him the al-Qaida connections and the cash necessary to execute the bomb plot.
"It seems almost like an elaborate piece of theater," said Ramzi Kassem, a CUNY law professor who runs a clinic on counter-terrorism police tactics.
Kassem is a critic of the FBI's reliance on confidential informants. He says the tactic risks presenting an appearance that terror suspects are more of a threat than they really are.
"Would that person have taken that step but for the government informant's involvement?" Kassem asked.
In 2005, the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General issued a report that found FBI agents failed to follow their own guidelines in 87 percent of all investigations involving confidential informants.
Still, law enforcement officials insist the use of confidential informants — even ones who essentially bankroll the terrorist aspirations of their investigation targets — are indispensable tools in the battle to keep Americans safe.
"How can you justify standing back, knowing that someone wants to carry out a terrorist attack on U.S. soil and take no action and just wait?" said Kelly Moore, a former federal prosecutor who now practices white collar criminal defense for the Manhattan law firm Morgan and Lewis.
Moore said federal investigators were right to offer Nafis all the financial resources he needed to carry out the Federal Reserve fake bomb plot.
"In this particular instance, he didn't have the resources to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank, but this is someone who, just as a matter of time, eventually was looking for someone to hook up with those resources and he is obviously a danger. He wants to blow stuff up," Moore said.
An attorney for Nafis has declined to comment.
The case against four Newburgh, N.Y., men who tried to blow up synagogues in the Bronx has drawn similar criticism from those who say confidential informants have too much latitude to coax suspects into acts they might otherwise never imagine.
In that case a confidential informant offered the suspects a set of missiles to launch at the Jewish houses of worship.
After sentencing three of the men to minimum prison terms, Manhattan Federal Court Judge Colleen McMahon blasted the investigators for their tactics.
"Only the government could have made a 'terrorist' out of [the defendant] whose buffoonery is positively Shakesperian in scope," said McMahon.
New York City law enforcement officials stress the use of confidential informants is perfectly legal and no terror defendant has successfully beaten a case by employing an entrapment defense.
Even the critics admit the use of confidential informants does not itself amount to police entrapment. Instead they focus on the extraordinary lengths some informants go to — like suggesting the terrorist targets and the timing of attacks — that becomes questionable.
"What sets these cases apart is the unusual degree to which the government agent is active," said Kassem.


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September 7, 2004
Dear SEC Commissioners:
I am Don Akridge, a CPA, financial consumer, and concerned citizen who has closely observed the financial services industry for the past 10 years. In particular, I have seen a new profession arise in our midst, a profession which fits the description but perhaps not the intent of the 1940 Act which the SEC was created to administer-- and which, perhaps more than anything else in the SECs regulatory purview, creates a need for interpretation of the Act with little direct guidance handed down from the visionaries who created it.
As you know, the Act was created primarily to guide and control what was then a nascent profession of institutional investment professionals, people who today would be described as fund managers and managers of endowments, and investment advisers to the very wealthiest segment of the general public. The creators of the Act appear not to have envisioned that investment advisory services would eventually be provided to a mass consumer audience. Nor did they envision that it would commonly, routinely be paired with more comprehensive advice of which investment advice is a strong subset--what we today call financial planning.
This lack of foresight is certainly understandable who among us CAN predict the future with any accuracy?, but it is also inconvenient in the present circumstance. Before I start offering my own comments and recommendations, I want to make sure that you know that I understand that--and, I think, so too do the parties involved in this discussion, the wirehouse organizations on one hand, and the financial planning profession on the other. Both of them look to you for guidance for very different reasons, and I think in the final analysis, it is those reasons, those agendas, which should be your best clue as to how to proceed in interpreting the Act into our present age.
Over the last 23 years, I have watched the financial planning profession do something which may be unique among professions: evolve ever higher standards of consumer protection, without being required to do so by any outside regulatory body. In the early 1980s, when I first became involved with the profession as a magazine editor, the typical financial planner was unambiguously a salesperson, a producer in the parlance of the time. Planners were not overly finicky about what they sold the products of the day were selected according to the size of the commissions they generated, and sometimes it was argued that diamonds and shares of diamond portfolios were not securities and therefore not required to be registered with the SEC or the state securities commissioner. Later in the decade, limited partnership investments were sold with more scrutiny of their commission structures than their merits to investors.
I could give you a detailed description of the evolution from those unhappy days to these, but the bottom line is really all that is necessary to know. And the bottom line is that gradually, a little at a time, sales activities were recognized to be not in the best interests of clients and customers, and were deemphasized in favor of advice and service. A growing number of planning professionals have set aside commission revenues in favor of fees, putting forth the argument that commissions carry an inevitable conflict of interest, greater than the conflicts associated with a fee-only compensation structure. Over that time, advisors have gradually begun to voluntarily embrace the concept of acting in a fiduciary role with clients. Along this journey, literally thousands of advisors decided that it was too much of a conflict to work for and represent a large financial services firm which promoted in-house investment products or which insisted that the loyalty of their brokers be to their bottom line rather than the bottom lines of the consuming public.
Let me repeat the most astonishing part of this story: that this evolution toward increasing consumer-friendliness was accomplished without outside regulatory pressure. It has been voluntary. And this evolution is continuing, and I expect it to continue unless acted on by an outside force, until the financial planning profession is virtually 100 fiduciary in its relationship to its customers, and upholds standards which are only given lip-service in other areas of the marketplace.
Over these years, I have also watched an interesting evolution of the larger wirehouse organizations--those firms whose attorneys are arguing the other side of the so-called Merrill Lynch Rule. When I started watching them, it seemed to me that their business model was founded on intractible conflicts of interest. They manufactured and managed investment products, and they also recommended investment products to the public--and, by a coincidence that I think you will have no trouble explaining, a high percentage of the investment products they recommended to the public were manufactured and managed in-house.
These firms also bought and sold investments for their own company account, and also recommended investments for their customers. Who got the best advice in these transactions? When an attractively-priced investment was presented to the firm, did it call its customers first?
These firms also took companies public, and, at the same time, made recommendations to the public on which IPO shares they should purchase. After agreeing to sell a certain number of shares on behalf of the company going public, could they then cast a skeptical eye on the offering when making recommendations to consumers?
Over these years, the evolution of the larger Wall Street firms has not, interestingly enough, taken the same path as that of the smaller investment advisers that we sometimes call financial planners. In fact, the Wall Street firms have, over these two decades and more, been unwilling to give up ANY of these manifest conflicts to their ability to give unbiased consumer-friendly advice to the public.
Instead, their evolution has been a bit more sly. Over these years, the people once called brokers have been renamed advisers and counselors, words chosen with care, words which do not suggest that there is a sales role or conflicts behind the advice offered to the public. I doubt very much that anybody reading this is unclear why these firms chose to rename their representatives. History has shown--and a careful reading of the 1940 Act confirms--that consumers prefer conflict-free advice to advice from people who have multiple agendas. Consumers put more trust in a fiduciary than in a salesperson. If the salesperson can somehow masquerade as a fiduciary, as an investment adviser, then the doors of trust are opened to people who are then able to act on their conflicts of interest and make recommendations and execute transactions that benefit everybody but the customer.
It is, in short, very good business to have salespeople rather than fiduciaries, but have the salespeople seem like fiduciaries to the general public.
We need hardly look at ancient history to see why consumers tend to gravitate toward fiduciary advisers. The recent scandals that you at the SEC are still cleaning up, where purportedly independent analysts were openly acknowledging their sales role when competing for year-end bonuses, where companies have offered sales rewards for recommending in-house products, where IPO shares were mispriced and then given away to favored customers in exchange for higher commissions can the movement of money from the company going public to the back pocket of the investment bank be any more transparent?, the sales of annuities and life insurance products as retirement plans--these all testify to the wisdom of that consumer who seeks out impartial fiduciary advice.
And so, today, you are required to interpret the 1940 Act and the specific broker-dealer exemption that is laid out in it, which states that the term Investment Adviser does not include or apply to any broker or dealer whose performance of such services is solely incidental to the conduct of his business as a broker or dealer and who receives no special compensation therefor.
I think that you, as the guardian of the spirit and the letter of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, have several issues to consider. The first, of course, is the letter of the regulation. Looking at todays large broker-dealer organization, and the way in which these organizations do business in todays marketplace, the question before you seems to be: Are the investment advisory services offered by these firms solely incidental to the conduct of their business? and Do they receive special compensation that pertains directly to the provision of investment advice?
The key issue, I believe, lies in how you define the terms solely incidental and special compensation. I would argue that the larger Wall Street firms have actually conceded the solely incidental issue everywhere but in their arguments before the Commission, and will simply point to their advertising, which I see at all hours of the day and night. Any reasonable assessment of the marketing messages put out by the firms who argue that they should remain exempt from RIA registration will show, not a focus on the excellence of their investment products, but on the excellence of the advice of their counselors. It is the same with their collateral literature, which inevitably focuses on the financial consultant, rather than the in-house products they recommend. In many cases, the first step in a relationship with a brokerage firm is the creation of a financial plan, with generic recommendations. A cynic might suggest that this is a well-crafted ploy to make the relationship look as much as possible like the opening of a relationship with a fiduciary, so that trust can be established in order to facilitate the sale of products to a less-wary consumer. But even a less-cynical observer can see that the provision of advice has become a centerpiece of the broker-customer relationship. There is nothing whatsoever incidental about it.
And what about special compensation? I think it is sensible to argue that the original creators of the 1940 Act were responding to their own environment, where brokers were paid trading commissions if the customer found their investment recommendations persuasive, while asset manager/investment advisers received ongoing management fees. The distinction that was once clear has now become remarkably fuzzy. Brokers are routinely compensated by asset management fees, as a percentage of the overall portfolio, exactly as investment advisers were compensated in the era when the 1940s Act was written and promulgated. Surely the original authors of the document would not have hesitated to call this special compensation. Otherwise, how on Earth would you distinguish between the compensation normally paid to investment advisers and to brokers?
I would argue--and AM arguing--that the current wirehouse activities fail the exemption test on both counts. A careful interpetation of the wording of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 cannot help but conclude that the larger wirehouse organizations have placed investment advice at the heart of the great majority of their customer relationships, and that many of their brokers-cum-counselors are compensated in ways that clearly fall into the area where brokerage activities end and investment advisory activities begin.
By this important standard, I submit that the wirehouse firms should be required to register as Registered Investment Advisers under the 1940 Act, immediately and without qualification.
The second issue to consider is the spirit of the regulation. What was the intent of the original writers of the Act, and how would we uphold their intent in todays marketplace?
This, I think, is not a complicated discussion. The authors of the Act were clearly attempting to protect the public by creating new and definitive standards of conduct, with appropriate penalties for those who abuse the public trust. They must have intended that all who hold themselves out as providing investment advice to the public, as their primary stock in trade, would be covered by the Act. Otherwise why create it in the first place?
Beyond this, however, is a more encompassing issue. Over the last 23 years, we have watched a substantial group of investment advisers embrace the spirit of the 1940 Act and the consumer protection is at its core. Those are the people who are asking you, today, to allow them to compete on equal terms with rivals who pose as them but who are not them, who continue to embrace conflicts, whose nefarious consumer unfriendly activities reemerge with some degree of regularity on the business pages of the nations newspapers, whose agenda is to blur the distinction between fiduciary and broker.
The situation in the marketplace is, I think, very clear. You have a group of advisers who have embraced their consumer protection role in increasing numbers and with increasing enthusiasm, who are asking you now to apply the fiduciary standard to anyone who represents him/herself as an investment adviser or provider of advice. And you have a group of larger firms who have attempted to blur the distinction between these emerging consumer advocates and their own continued attachment to conflicts of interest, who are asking you to allow them to evade fiduciary responsibilities so their renamed consultants and advisers can pose as equally-trustworthy providers of advice.
The investment advisers who have registered with the SEC ask nothing more than for you to apply the rules equally to all parties. If you deny them this consideration, then you are sending them--and the public--the clear message that consumer protection is somehow less important than the business interests of large financial services organizations.
The right decision, I would suggest, is to rescind the Merrill Lynch Rule in its entirety. As a financial consumer, on behalf of all of my kind, I ask you to make the right decision.


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Wayland to recognize alumni during Homecoming 2012
October 16, 2012
PLAINVIEW – As part of the Homecoming 2012 activities at Wayland Baptist University,
several alumni will be recognized for their successes and contributions in their fields,
and for their support of Wayland. The official recognition will be held during chapel
service at 11 a.m. on Friday morning in Wayland's Harral Memorial Auditorium. The
public is invited to attend the chapel service.
The following will be recognized:
Distinguished Alumni Award –Dr. Estelle Owens, B.A.'71
An "icon" at Wayland for most of the past 45 years, the recipient of the University's highest honor for an alumnus knows her history – family and otherwise.
Dr. Estelle Owens says: "I am your basic American American but Baptist preachers, Italian sailors, French fur trappers, English pickpockets, Scottish and German farmers, explorers, and soldiers who served with Sam Houston are all in my background."
Coming to Wayland from the small town of Jasper, near Beaumont, the sixth-generation Texan received the Outstanding Freshman Award and went on to earn a B.A. with honors in history in 1971.
She received a Master of Arts from Baylor and a Ph.D. from Auburn University in Alabama. In 1992, she was named an Outstanding Female Graduate of Auburn.
She joined the Wayland faculty in 1974 and is the second-longest-tenured current full-time faculty member. In addition to serving as Dean of the School of Behavioral and Social Sciences for 30 years, she holds the rank of Professor of History and the title of University Historian.
Estelle is working on a definitive history of the university and provided much of the material for a "coffee table" history book of stories and pictures – "The Wayland Century" – compiled during the Centennial year of 2008 by one of her former students, Jonathan Petty, of the Public Relations staff.
She has been voted Teacher of the Year several times by the student body and Students' Choice Chapel Speaker; received the Outstanding Faculty Award from WBU trustees, the Faculty Scholarship Award, the University Faculty Service Award and the University Service Award; is a multiple nominee by the faculty for the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor Award, received the Maloney Faculty Award and served as president of the Wayland Faculty Assembly.
Estelle received the Wayland Legacy Leadership Award in 2008, and was honored in 2009 by an endowed scholarship in her name.
Dr. Owens has presented scores of scholarly papers, has been widely published in historical publications and has served as president of the Texas Oral History Association and served on the executive board of the Texas Baptist Historical Society and the board of the Texas Baptist Historical Collection.
She is a member of First Baptist Church of Plainview where she is an offering bearer and has served on a number of committees.
Distinguished Alumni Service Award – Dr. Veryl Henderson, B.A.'65
Born in Shamrock, Texas, but raised in Grand Junction, Colo., Veryl Henderson since 2003 has been Executive Director-Treasurer of the Hawaii Pacific Baptist Convention that serves congregations in Hawaii, American Samoa, Samoa, Guam, Saipan, Okinawa and Seoul, South Korea.
Veryl received his degree in religion with minors in speech communications and English from Wayland in 1965. He also has degrees from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Dr. Henderson did extensive continuing education in church planting and leadership and served as an adjunct professor for Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary.
He has ministry experience in resort missions and church planting in Colorado; was a pastoral missionary for the Home Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention for a church and two missions in Maui, Hawaii; and through the Colorado Baptist General Convention helped start churches for recently released inmates and for language groups without a church.
In Hawaii, he and his wife were involved in multiple ministries with five worship services every Sunday in various places.
While at Wayland, Veryl was a Volunteer Mission Band leader for weekend dramas and revivals and led a children's ministry for a Hispanic mission in Plainview.
He and his wife, the former Cheryl Lynn Owen, EX'94 from the Hawaii campus, live in Honolulu. They have two daughters and five grandchildren.
Distinguished Alumni Leadership Award –Dr. Clyde Cain, B.A.'58
A native of Canadian, Clyde Cain serves as Coordinator and Professor for the Shawnee, Okla. campus of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary from which he received his Doctor of Ministry degree in 1989. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in religion from Wayland in 1958. He also has two other degrees from Southwestern and a doctorate from Luther Rice Seminary.
Clyde has served as pastor, transitional pastor and interim pastor of several churches in Texas and Oklahoma. He has held many denominational posts for the Baptist General Convention of Oklahoma including Associate Director of Evangelism, Annuity Consultant, Leadership Development Specialist and Director of Continuing Education.
Dr. Cain served as president of the Annuity State Representatives and Church Minister Relations Directors of the Southern Baptist Convention, has contributed to convention periodicals and has led crusades and lay evangelism schools.
At Wayland, he was a campus photographer for four years, a member of the Mission Band, was a class favorite , served as head cheerleader with his future wife and was SGA president his senior year.
He helped organize and support the Class of 1958 Endowed Scholarship honoring international students.
Clyde and his wife of 55 years, the former Kay Archer, B.A.'58, live in Edmond, Okla. They have two children and five grandchildren.
Distinguished Young Alumni Award: Greg Brown, B.M.'92, M.Ed.'98
Principal at Plainview's Hillcrest Elementary School since 2001, Greg Brown graduated from Wayland in 1992 with a Bachelor of Music degree and received his Master of Education from Wayland in 1998.
A native of Farmington, N.M., Mr. Brown graduated from Moriarty (N.M.) High, participating in choir and athletics. He was a member of the All-State Choir for three years and was honorable mention all-state in basketball as a senior.
At Wayland, he was a member of the International Choir for four years, president of
the choir for two years and also was involved in Phi Mu Alpha and Student Government.
Greg was the choir teacher at Coronado Junior High for six years. Under his direction, the choirs received the school's first-ever Sweepstakes in vocal performance and sightreading in the annual choir competition.
Greg is president of District 17 of the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association and has been active in the Plainview Lions Club for 12 years.
Over the past 20 years at Harvest Christian Fellowship, he has led home groups, served as Kids Pastor, has done parent training, and helped with marriage counseling. He currently leads worship teams, plays the drums and serves on the Elder Board.
He and his wife, the former Jill Boudreaux, B.A.'92, have two sons.
Distinguished Benefactor Award: Charles and Mary Abercrombie
Wayland will present three awards to Charles and Mary Abercrombie of Amarillo – the Distinguished Benefactor Award, the Keeper of the Flame and an endowed scholarship given by their children.
Charles was born near Erick, Okla., graduated from Vinson (Okla.) High School in 1944 and enlisted in the U.S. Navy. He graduated in 1949 from pharmacy school at Southwestern State University and practiced pharmacy for 40 years. He owned S&H Pharmacy in Amarillo for 30 of those years.
Mary LouIta Campbell was born in Harmon County, Okla. and grew up on a farm near Hollis, Okla. She graduated from Arnett High School in 1947 and attended Oklahoma Baptist University and then Southwestern State University.
Charles and Mary were married in 1948 in Harmon County, Okla. They moved to Amarillo in 1950 and have attended Grand Avenue Baptist Church since that time. He has been a deacon for 48 years and she has been church pianist for more than 47 years.
They have four children, including Dr. Gary Abercrombie of Plainview, a Wayland alum who is chairman of the Wayland Board of Trustees and a board member of the Association of Former Students. They also have three daughters, 12 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
As trustee for the Lee and Alma Anderson Estate, Charles Abercrombie has directed more than $300,000 to Wayland, including the Barton and Harriett Abercrombie Endowed Scholarship that has benefited many students.
The Keeper of the Flame is given to donors who have contributed $100,000 or more to Wayland.
Lifetime Service Award – Dr. Gary Manning, Professor of Religion
A fixture in the School of Religion and Philosophy for 30 years, Dr. Gary Manning continues to serve Wayland as a professor for the San Antonio campus, after moving to nearby Bandera over the summer. He holds the rank of Professor of Religion and Professor of Religious Education.
A native of San Antonio, he received a B.S. in Religious Education from Howard Payne University as well as a Masters in Religious Education from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and his Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1982, also from Southwestern where he majored in psychology and counseling.
At Wayland he served as chairman of the Division of Christian Ministries, was honored for Outstanding Contribution to Faculty-Administration Relationships, Outstanding Faculty Award from the board of trustees and the Maloney Faculty Award.
With experience as a pastor and minister of education, youth and music, Dr. Manning led many Sunday school conferences and youth, leadership and church retreats as well as marriage enrichment events with his wife.
He also was interim pastor of several West Texas churches. A talented vocalist, he was interim music minister for several churches, including 20 months at First Baptist-Plainview.
Dr. Manning wrote discipleship training curriculum for youth for the Baptist Sunday School Board and also authored a reader-friendly textbook for use in his Spiritual Formation classes.
An outstanding golfer himself, Gary was instrumental in starting the Pioneer golf program in the early 1990s. He served as the coach for six years.
He also was instrumental in several current and past faculty and staff members coming to Wayland.
Gary and his wife Paulette, M.Ed.'86, a longtime school teacher and administrator and recipient of the 2011 Distinguished Alumni Service Award, have two children and two grandchildren.


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Source: Martha Stewart Baby, Volume 1 Special Issue 2000
It's never too early to begin a child's library, and a set of classics -- from Peter Pan to Mother Goose -- is sure to be appreciated in the reading years to come. To personalize a gift of books, include a set of handmade bookplates: Color-copy borders from clip-art books to make the plates, stack them together, and tie with a bow -- or have bookplate images made into rubber stamps. Alternatively, donate a book to a library in a child's name, sending a bookmark "card" to inform the child of the gift. Make the bookmark out of heavyweight art paper. Punch a hole at the top, add an eyelet (available at sewing-supply stores) if desired, and thread with a tassel.


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Greetings all;
This is for all you reinactors and the like.
Would like to find a Roman gladius of the type used either in the galic wars or by trajan.
Any suggestions of where i should look?
I want a display piece for my library, but would prefer an authentic 'working' sword as those display only things are just......


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It took four days before they were able to finish the game, but the Panthers 21-7 win over MacMurray Monday afternoon was the 294th victory for Greenville College head baseball coach Lynn Carlson. The victory tied him with long-time baseball coach Dave Altopp for most wins as Panther skipper. It only took two hours for Carlson to break the record as the Panthers rolled to a 14-0 win over MacMurray in the regularly scheduled game later Monday afternoon.
In 14 years as baseball coach, Carlson has a career record of 295-263-2 in a coaching career at Greenville that started in 1997. He was the SLIAC coach of the year in 2006 after leading the Panthers to a regular season conference championship, and his teams have qualified for six consecutive SLIAC tournaments, placing second in 2006 and 2007. His 14 years as head coach ranks second to Altopp's 16 seasons. Bob "Ish" Smith is third with 11 years as head baseball coach and 141 wins.
While a student at Greenville College, Carlson competed in men's basketball and baseball before signing a professional baseball contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1990 and pitching in the Pirates' and San Diego Padres' organizations. He returned to Greenville College and graduated in 1993. He also holds a master's degree from the University of Kentucky.


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Obligate intracellular protozoan parasites of the genus Leishmania are responsible for the vector-borne disease known as Leishmaniasis (transmitted by phlebotomine sandflies). Human infection is caused by about 21 of 30 species that infect mammals. These include the L. donovani complex with 3 species (L. donovani, L. infantum, and L. chagasi); the L. mexicana complex with 3 main species (L. mexicana, L. amazonensis, and L. venezuelensis); L. tropica; L. major; L. aethiopica; and the subgenus Viannia with 4 main species (L. (V.) braziliensis, L. (V.) guyanensis, L. (V.) panamensis, and L. (V.) peruviana). The different species are morphologically indistinguishable, but they can be differentiated by isoenzyme analysis, molecular methods, or monoclonal antibodies.
Leishmaniasis is found in parts of about 88 countries. Approximately 350 million people live in these areas. Most of the affected countries are in the tropics and subtropics. The settings in which leishmaniasis is found range from rain forests in Central and South America to deserts in West Asia. More than 90 percent of the world's cases of visceral leishmaniasis are in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sudan, and Brazil. Leishmaniasis is found in Mexico, Central America, and South America—from northern Argentina to Texas (not in Uruguay, Chile, or Canada), southern Europe (leishmaniasis is not common in travelers to southern Europe), Asia (not Southeast Asia), the Middle East, and Africa (particularly East and North Africa, with some cases elsewhere).
Leishmaniasis is transmitted to humans by the bite of infected female phlebotomine sandflies (Psychodidae:Phlebotominae). The sandflies inject the infective stage (i.e., promastigotes) from their proboscis during blood meals. Promastigotes that reach the puncture wound are phagocytized by macrophages and other types of mononuclear phagocytic cells. Progmastigotes transform in these cells into the tissue stage of the parasite (i.e., amastigotes), which multiply by simple division and proceed to infect other mononuclear phagocytic cells. Parasite, host, and other factors affect whether the infection becomes symptomatic and whether cutaneous or visceral leishmaniasis results. Sandflies become infected by ingesting infected cells during blood meals. In sandflies, amastigotes transform into promastigotes, develop in the gut (in the hindgut for leishmanial organisms in the Viannia subgenus; in the midgut for organisms in the Leishmania subgenus), and migrate to the proboscis.


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I'm not really sure why Intel isn't pushing the new Haswell-based chips a little harder, as they seem to have been released with a whisper. When the first i-generation of chips was released -- the i3s, i5s and i7s -- there was a huge campaign to show how revolutionary they were compared to previous models. But now we are seeing the fourth generation Haswell-based chips, and almost nothing is being said about them.
There were complaints in June about the chips overheating when overclocked, which prompted Intel to limit overclocking to certain chips, but their performance would still seem to warrant more discussion. Only the actual computer manufacturers are making any sort of effort to educate people about the benefits of a Haswell-based systems. But then again, perhaps the performance speaks for itself.
Yes, they are amazing. For such low-power consumption, there's more raw power than most people know what to do with. And even when they're not running at maximum speed, they'll still help extend battery life. Laptops with Haswell chips could help enable mobile computing and teleworking for agency employees who need a powerful system.
The latest product to take advantage of the Haswell Intel Core i7 processor is the Scorpius 2.0 notebook from Eurocom.
Even without the Haswell processor, the Scorpius is an impressive unit. It's got dual Nvidia GeForce GTX 780M graphics cards and 8G of DDR5 video memory driving its 17.1-inch screen. There are a lot of options for connecting devices into it too, including HDMI 1.4, Thunderbolt, four USB 3.0 ports and an eSATA/USB 2.0 combo port.
But what really blew us away was the performance. It scored 4,576 on the Passmark Performance Benchmarks without any overclocking at all. For a notebook, that is about as impressive as it gets today. Consider the fact that the powerful Tiki workstation got up to 5,618 last year using a previous generation processor, or the fact that the most modern workstation we've ever benchmarked, the Origin Systems Chronos Pro got 6,131 just last month. But they didn't have access to this new chipset, which apparently gives mere notebooks access to workstation-level performance.
That is not to say that the original jump to the i-line of chips wasn't impressive. Prior to that, even a custom-built workstation built for speed couldn't top the 2,200 Passmark rating. But it's important to note that despite the lack of fanfare, another great leap forward has occurred. The Eurocom Scorpius 2.0 notebook is a harbinger of a new generation of computers. And it's a good idea to insist on Haswell-based i3, i5 or i7 chips right now for any computer build moving forward. Anything else would just be hitching your wagon to a much slower horse.
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That's great news. But many Users may be disappointed so far as Ultrabooks with Haswell are concerned. Intel is insisting they all be Touchscreen-equipped to be labelled an "Ultrabook". And that means Glossy screens -- which many people HATE. I'm hoping Asus or someone comes to their senses and offers a Non-Touch 14-in laptop with an IPS MATTE screen. If not, I won't buy Haswell.
You are right. I'm holding out for a haswell powered ultrabook but you have to hunt for them. I think retailers are pushing pre-haswell inventory thus not talking Haswell yet. This fall will be the Haswell boom.
Thanks for this. I didn't realize that the new Haswell chips were that impressive. You are right, nobody is saying anything about them.
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Building a strong network is the key to career success. However, it can be difficult to know where to start. These networking secrets and shortcuts will boost your business card collection in no time.
Take inspiration from the best-selling book by Danny Wallace and never turn down an invitation. Every event, whether it's a niece's birthday party or your colleague's barbecue, presents an opportunity to meet new and interesting people. If you want to go one step further then join groups related to your pastimes, volunteer for charities you're passionate about or actively seek out industry events.
Dress for the job you want
First impressions are heavily influenced by non-verbal cues: That is, the way you look and the way you carry yourself. Around 55% of that first impression is accounted for by clothing. Not every occasion requires an Armani suit, however – you'll look out of place arriving at the aforementioned barbecue dressed to the nines. It's important to blend in with others while remaining presentable.
Be open and approachable
Fiddling with your smartphone or displaying closed body language like folded arms will discourage people from striking up conversation. Keep your phone in your pocket – if you really need to check it, excuse yourself to the bathroom to do so in private – and wear an open expression on your face. Smiling has hidden benefits too. Not only does a smile make you appear friendly and approachable, it can also boost your self-esteem.
Listen to understand, not to reply
As venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki says, "the mark of a good conversationalist is not that you can talk a lot [but] that you can get others to talk a lot." The biggest mistake is nodding along, waiting for your chance to speak. People love to talk about themselves, so listening and engaging by asking questions will make you more likeable. Remembering key facts about the person you're speaking to (what football team they support, upcoming events in their life) gives you a jumping off point when you contact them after the event.
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Opportunities to network often happen outside of scheduled events. You might meet a potential contact during downtime, so have business cards printed and carry them wherever you go. You should also prepare an 'elevator pitch': a few sentences about who you are, what you do, and how you can help people. Knowing exactly what to say will stop you feeling flustered when you're introduced to a new contact.
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Get in touch a few days after the event, and mention something you spoke about at the event. If the contact requested further information, try to arrange a follow-up meeting. If there's nothing immediate you can help them with then have a friendly catch-up, but don't keep them too long. If appropriate, follow them on Twitter and strike up a dialogue there. Stay in touch –without pestering – and they are more likely to think of you when your services are needed.


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WILKES-BARRE, PA. – Senior quarterback Ryan Gresik (Newton, N.J./Newton) became the Pioneers' career completions and yardage leader and the William Paterson football team (1-0) held off a late King's (0-1) rally as WP began its 2013 season with a 21-19 victory Sept. 7.
Gresik finished 22-for-30 for 250 yards, completing touchdown passes to three different teammates against the Monarchs. In the process, he became WP's career leader in completions (388), breaking the tie he had been in with Rob Warchol (366, 2000-01), and yardage (4,319), surpassing Warchol's total of 4,113.
Following a scoreless first quarter, it was King's that struck first with a five-yard Kyle McGrath run. Kevin Mulvihill kicked the PAT and the Monarchs owned a 7-0 edge with 9:58 remaining in the first half.
Senior cornerback Andre Snead's (Atlantic City, N.J./Atlantic City) interception two series later gave WP the ball at midfield, and the Pioneers three times converted on third down during the 13-play drive, including an 18-yard touchdown completion from Gresik to senior wide receiver Julian Frazier (Plainfield, N.J./North Plainfield). The extra point off the foot of junior Robert Sinegra (Wharton, N.J./Morris Knolls) was good, tying the score at 7-7 with 1:45 on the clock.
William Paterson forced a punt to open the second half and started its first possession with a 50-yard Gresik-to-Mick Paye (Lumberton, N.J./Rancocas Valley Regional) completion. Five plays later, Gresik again found Paye, this time for a 12-yard score, and Sinegra's PAT handed the Pioneers a 14-7 lead with 9:13 to play in the third quarter.
WP capped a nine-play, 47-yard drive with a 15-yard touchdown pass by Gresik to sophomore wide receiver Nickolas Burke (Maple Shade, N.J./Maple Shade), making it a 21-7 game six seconds into the fourth quarter.
The two teams traded punts until Judens Goimbert's three-yard touchdown carry for King's with 4:05 remaining. Senior defensive lineman Webb Geer (Sparta, N.J./Sparta) then made one of the key plays of the game, blocking the extra-point kick to keep it an eight-point game at 21-13.
Two third-down conversions and a 14-yard gain on fourth-and-one kept the chains moving when King's got the ball back, and quarterback Tyler Hartranft finished the possession with a 40-yard score to Josh Sanders, pulling the Monarchs to within two at 21-19 with 1:10 to play. Forced to go for two, Hartranft's pass was unsuccessful.
King's attempted the on-side kick but William Paterson recovered and took a knee twice to run out the clock.
Paye caught six passes for 108 yards, his fourth career 100-yard effort, and a touchdown, while Burke finished with four receptions, 50 yards and a touchdown during his first career appearance. Sophomore Darius Kersey (Dover, N.J./Dover) led the ground game with 36 yards on 10 attempts,
Junior linebacker Ben Allen (Ventnor, N.J./Atlantic City), junior defensive back Elijah DeGuzman (Pennsauken, N.J./Pennsauken) and senior linebacker David Zurla (Rutherford, N.J./Rutherford) each finished with nine tackles to pace the WP defense. DeGuzman forced a fumble and Allen posted 1.5 tackles for a loss (0.5 sack). Junior linebacker Robert Prince (Howell, N.J./Absegami) added seven stops, and Frazier punted seven times for an average of 42.1 yards.
Hartranft was 14-for-36 for 213 yards and a score for King's. McGrath gained 94 yards on 22 rushes, scoring once, and Dan Kempa caught five passes for 105 yards. Nick Kaijala led both teams with 10 tackles.
William Paterson will visit Bridgewater State Saturday, Sept. 14, at 12:00 p.m.
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High quality HDMI vs. Cheap HDMI is always one of my favorite debates just because I like hearing some of the ridiculous things people come up with. If you go into any forum that discusses this topic it will be filled with people who are trying to convince everyone to buy the cheapest HDMI cable they can find because all HDMI cables are the same. This statement could not be further from the truth. High quality cables will give you better results and are going to become more and more important as technology advances. Lets first look at this argument from a logical sense. You have just bought a brand new 50 inch 1080p HDTV, a Blu-Ray Disc player and have topped it off with a surround sound system. So you have spent at least $5000 probably more around $10000, that's a big investment. Now you just spent all that money on top-of-the-line home theater equipment and are going to connect it all with $5 HDMI Cables? I would compare that to buying salvaged engine parts for a Ferrari. What a lot of people don't understand is that a quality HDMI cable could make the difference between an average picture and a great one. Signal Quality The most common argument in favor of cheap HDMI cables is that a digital signal is a digital signal and no matter what it is run through, it will either work or it won't. While there is some truth to this statement it can be very misleading. Yes a digital signal is a digital signal and a high quality HDMI cable will not transform it into some super digital signal. What you should be concerned about with a cheap HDMI cable is the digital signal arriving at its destination intact. The ability to deliver the digital signal intact is the main difference between a high quality HDMI cable and a cheap one. HDMI cables have no way of telling if there is a problem with the signal, this means that if there are errors in the signal you will be able to see them on your TV. This problem is most apparent in longer lengths of HDMI cable. Digital signals are harder to keep intact when they travel over greater distances. A high quality HDMI cable like a Monster HDMI Cable is made to keep the digital signal from degrading over longer lengths. Though this problem is less of a factor at shorter lengths (like 3 feet) because the data doesn't have to travel very far, a lot of people say that any HDMI cable will do. Again only some parts of this statement are true, there may not be as many errors but that doesn't mean that there won't be any at all. A quality HDMI cable will assure you that you are always getting the best picture possible at any distance. In-Wall Installation If you are going to be running an HDMI cable through a wall or any other surface it is very important that you get an HDMI cable that can handle that kind of abuse. Cheap HDMI cables are not made for in-wall installations and can easily be damaged during installation. This can happen several different ways. They can be cut when being pulled through the wall, the connector can be separated if too much pressure is applied or it could be damaged by the elements once installed. Make sure you get an HDMI cable that was built to endure this kind of abuse. Monster M-Series HDMI cables are the ultimate cable for in-wall installation and performance. Not only are they able to handle the highest amount of bandwidth possible, they have heavy duty molded strain relief conductors for reduced wear and tear. They also have Duraflex protective jackets that protect them from damage and extreme temperatures. Don't go cheap when you are doing in-wall installations with HDMI, it could end up costing you a lot of wasted time and money. Future Proofing This is something that is almost completely overlooked by most electronics consumers. We all know that technology these days improves at a rapid rate, the Blu-Rays and HD Cable Boxes of today will probably be outdated in the near future. In a few years newer high definition technology with higher resolutions that call for more bandwidth will be the norm. So your HDMI cable that works on todays technology might not work on tomorrow's. Cheaper HDMI cables will start to get pushed out in the future since they are only made to handle the low bandwidth of today's digital signals. It would not be much fun to wire an in-wall HDMI cable now and have to replace it every couple of years because of technology change. You might as well get an HDMI cable that is going to work throughout the years. Some of Monster's HDMI cables are guaranteed for life which means that they will be able to pass any bandwidth over HDMI both now and in the future. HDMI is a great tool to utilize and can really maximize your home theater experience. Can you get by going the "cheap" route? In some cases you can, but there are a lot of factors you should consider before doing so. My suggestion is to get HDMI cables that will assure you the best possible picture both now and in the future. Don't sell your home theater system or HDTV short by going the cheap route. It may save you some money now, but it could wind up costing you in the future.


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Dear average American Citizen:
Every one's child is at risk:
"Statement of Carol Carothers of Augusta, Maine on Behalf of NAMI (The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill) Before the Governmental Affairs Committee, United States Senate on Juvenile Detention Centers: Are They Warehousing Children with Mental Illnesses?
July 7, 2004
Chairwoman Collins, Senator Lieberman, and members of the Governmental Affairs Committee, I am Carol Carothers, the Executive Director of NAMI Maine, the Maine state chapter of NAMI -- the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill.
I am also the proud recipient of a 2004 Robert Wood Johnson Community Health Leadership Award for my work to improve conditions for Maine�s inmates living with mental illness and co-occurring substance use disorders.
First, I would like to thank you for providing me with this opportunity to testify today about an issue that is of great concern to me and families across the state of Maine � the warehousing of children with mental illnesses in youth detention facilities.
I have reviewed the report released today titled The Incarceration of Mentally Ill Youth Waiting for Community Mental Health Services in the United States -- and can share with you first hand from my experience working in jails and prisons and contacts with youth living with mental illnesses and their families that the findings are accurate. The sad truth in Maine and nearly every other state in our country is that youth with mental illnesses are being held in juvenile detention for the sole purpose of awaiting mental health treatment and services. It is hard to imagine a worse place to house a child that requires healthcare treatment and services for their mental illness. Surely we would not dream of placing a child with another serious illness, like cancer for example, in a juvenile detention center to await a hospital bed or community based treatment. It is outrageous that we do this to children with mental illnesses, as young as 7 years old. This takes an enormous toll on the child and the family.
Rather than only share family stories on this crisis, I would ask you to read a copy of The Portland Press Herald�s three part series titled Castaway Children (August 2002). I have provided copies of this series for the committee and the record. This series tells the compelling stories of how the lack of adequate mental health services in Maine has dramatically impacted many children and families, often with tragic consequences. The media has reported on similar stories in many other states � and the report released today on incarcerating children with mental illnesses makes clear that the lack of adequate and appropriate mental health services for youth and families is a national crisis.
Children and Families Are Suffering Unthinkable Consequences from This Crisis
My first involvement with mental health and the criminal justice system came in response to the death of an 18 year-old youth with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. This young man had fallen though the cracks for years � no one had intervened or properly diagnosed or treated his mental illness or his substance use disorder. Ultimately, he hung himself in Maine�s most restrictive prison -- the super-max. The incredible tragedy is that he fits right within the confines of this report � he was in the super-max only because he was suicidal and no hospital bed could be found for him and not because of any offense that he had committed. What an unfortunate loss of a young life, particularly when today we have made great scientific strides in understanding how to properly diagnose and treat mental illnesses in youth and adults.
There have been plenty of other cases with unthinkable outcomes. Recently, Maine settled a lawsuit on behalf of a child committed to the youth center at the age of 13. At that time, he was suffering from depression and suicidal ideation. He was held in isolation for 152 of his first 240 days. Because of the severity of his illness and the lack of proper treatment, this child was committed to a youth center five times and each time this pattern of isolation continued. As one would expect, this child�s behavior deteriorated and his symptoms of depression, aggression, and eventually self-mutilation, increased. This led to more periods of isolation as punishment for his poor behavior � he was spiraling deeper and deeper into his illness. A juvenile justice center was hardly an appropriate environment for a child suffering from a serious mental illness.
I spoke to a mother last week, who began her quest for help for her son with mental illness when he was in junior high school. The school system responded to his bipolar illness by insisting that there was nothing wrong with him, refusing to provide special education services, and expelling him when he failed to follow school rules. His mother nearly lost her job because she was frequently absent from work to care for him, and her other children begged her to kick him out of the house. At age 12 when he first entered the juvenile justice system, the courts responded by incarcerating him because they also were not trained to recognize his mental illness nor did they understand the research showing that their approach would make him worse, not better. And the youth center where he was locked up contributed to his down-ward spiral by placing him with older juveniles who taught him advanced criminal behaviors. She said, if I could ask for anything I would ask them � what money did you save by denying my son mental health treatment and services? He could have had a good school experience and would have been thriving now. Instead, the family suffered, he suffered, and I bet it cost significantly more money to treat him in this inhumane manner.
One of the moms in our support group has a 13 year old son who was in a residential school program and doing well. However, she moved north, and her son was supposed to transfer to another program closer to her. The plans to link him to new services fell apart, and he ended up with nothing -- no psychiatrist, no case worker, no medications, and no therapist. As one would expect, he fell apart and landed in juvenile detention, where he still is, weeks later. And, what's different since he landed there � he NOW cuts himself and has learned negative behaviors that are likely to make his reintegration into the community more difficult � another compelling example of why it is such an inappropriate environment for kids with mental illnesses.
Many moms inform me that they have been told to either give up custody of their child with a mental illness to obtain services or the state will come and take their healthy children away and put them in foster care because of the behaviors of the ill child and the potential for harm caused by the symptoms of that illness. These are parents who love all of their children and have depleted their resources to try to get mental health services � what kind of a choice is that for a parent who loves their child and is desperate to secure services?
Juvenile Detention Centers Are the Worst Possible Environment for Children with Mental Illnesses
In criminal justice facilities the symptoms of mental illnesses are often misinterpreted by inadequately trained staff as disobedience, defiance or even threats. I have seen this first hand. Often well meaning, but untrained corrections� staff, respond to these behaviors with anger, discipline or even force. When staff are allowed to resort too quickly to threats and force in the face of non-compliant adolescent behavior, minor incidents escalate and the risk of harm increases for both the child and the officer. Many of the techniques used in correctional settings -- like prolonged isolation and restraint -- actually lead to increased, not decreased acting out and self-harm, particularly among youth with mental illnesses.
It is wrong to place children with mental illnesses that require treatment into juvenile detention centers where the symptoms of their illnesses significantly worsen and their long-term outcomes become much bleaker. These are environments almost guaranteed to exacerbate their mental illnesses. Children with mental illnesses belong in therapeutic treatment centers. Imagine the message that we are sending to these children when we house them in juvenile detention while they await treatment for their mental illness � it has a dramatic detrimental effect on these children.
Additionally, when a child is housed in a juvenile detention facility, parents experience a complete loss of involvement in their child�s life. The philosophy of many detention centers is to limit contact of youth confined to the facility with their families. Families lack the opportunity to stay closely connected to their child at a time when the child is vulnerable and most in need of their love and support.
Juvenile detention centers have limited resources and serve complex populations. When children are detained in juvenile centers in Maine, they are housed in a single unit where 10 year olds can be housed with 20 year olds. This makes educating the child and providing for their individual needs extremely difficult. It also creates vulnerability of these younger children to physical and sexual assaults and victimization. Staff frequently spend most of their time protecting vulnerable kids from predatory kids, especially when the unit houses far more youth than they are built to house.
Finally, if youth housed in the center have undiagnosed mental disorders, which many do, then the correctional setting is slow to respond, complicating matters and leading to a deterioration in mental status, increased violations of rules, and increased discipline. The unfortunate reality is that the more experiences that youth with mental illnesses have in juvenile detention centers, the more likely it is that they will descend deeper and deeper into the criminal justice system. The initial placement in juvenile detention becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Maine, Like Most States, Lacks Adequate Home and Community Based Services
Maine, like many other states, lacks anything close to adequate home and community-based mental health services for youth with mental illnesses. This is the case despite the fact that home and community based services cost considerably less than institutional care and keeps children at home or close to home and loved ones. Research shows that serving kids in the community and close to home � whenever possible -- leads to more stable lives and better outcomes and often saves the state money over institutional care. It costs fifty to eighty thousand dollars a year to lock a child up in a detention facility and about $30,000 to provide intensive in-home services for a family for one year.
Families are forced to beg for crisis services or are placed on long waiting lists for services. Families report being told that they must wait as long as one year or more for services. This has led to the unnecessary warehousing of children in juvenile detention centers. The urgency of this crisis cannot be overstated. There is anecdotal and research-based evidence that too many of the youth housed in juvenile detention centers graduate to the adult correctional system. The United States is now the country with the largest number of incarcerated citizens in the world. Four new prisons open every month to house the growing number of individuals that are convicted of crimes.
We are spending money in all of the wrong places. We need to appropriate funds to build home and community based mental health treatment and services for children with mental disorders. This will both benefit society as a whole and lessen burdens on the juvenile justice system.
The failure to adopt new policies and to consider what works will mean that growing numbers of states will spend more on their correctional systems than they do on their treatment or education systems. We must not become a nation that spends more to incarcerate children than we spend on their education or in providing them with treatment for their serious illnesses.
Unfortunately, in Maine, like most other states across the country -- mental health and substance abuse services are being substantially reduced, rationed, and eliminated as states struggle to balance their budgets. What this will surely mean is that more children and adults with mental illnesses will be locked up in correctional facilities because they cannot access the treatment that they desperately need. The money cut from mental health and substance abuse services will not be saved, instead it will be shifted to the juvenile and corrections� budgets, a waste of taxpayer money and an inhumane way to treat children and adults with mental illnesses.
What Can Be Done to Help End This Crisis?
Congress can take several steps to address this public health crisis.
First, Congress should enact the Keeping Families Together Act (S. 1704/H.R. 3243) � which is designed to help end the tragedy of forcing families to give up custody of their child to the state to access mental health services. This bill would provide grants to eligible states to develop a more comprehensive array of home and community based services. It also calls for better coordination between child serving agencies � this is desperately needed. Families report that child-serving agencies � like education, child welfare, juvenile justice and mental health � rarely coordinate services, often work at odds and overall fail to work together to help children with mental illnesses and their families. This bill would help end the warehousing of children in juvenile detention centers while they wait for mental health services.
Second, Congress should also enact additional federal legislation to help improve access to essential community based services for youth with mental illnesses and their families. This should include increased funding for the full array of mental health services needed by these youth.
Third, NAMI supports the immediate enactment of The Mentally Ill Offender Treatment and Crime Reduction Act (S. 1194/H.R. 2387). This bill would authorize funding for grants to states and communities to be used in a variety of ways to address the high percentage of youth and adults with mental illnesses locked up in jails and prisons. These include jail diversion programs, community reentry programs, and enhanced treatment for youth and adults with serious mental illnesses who come into contact with criminal justice systems.
Fourth, Congress should enact The Senator Paul Wellstone Mental Health Equitable Treatment Act -- the mental health parity legislation (S. 486/H.R. 953). There are discriminatory caps on nearly all private health insurance plans for mental health benefits. Families are often left with no where to turn when they exhaust these benefits. Families are frequently caught in a "catch 22" situation. They fail to qualify for Medicaid under the strict income limits yet even when they have private insurance coverage, their plan provides for inadequate mental health benefits.
Finally, NAMI supports the Family Opportunity Act (S. 622/H.R. 1811) � which would allow families with children with serious disabilities to buy into the Medicaid program � on a sliding cost sharing basis to provide insurance coverage for essential services.
These important legislative initiatives will help to address the crisis described so vividly in the report released today.
In closing, I would like to thank Senator Collins and Representative Henry Waxman for their leadership in presenting this report on incarcerating children with mental illnesses in juvenile detention while they await treatment.
I would also like to share with the committee that in preparing my remarks for this hearing, I spoke with families, inmates, and advocates and asked them -- what is the most important thing that I should say? The answer that they all agreed on -- make sure they understand the urgency of this issue. This is truly one of the major crises facing America today.
Children represent a fraction of the population in our country, but are 100% of our future. Ending this inhumane crisis will require immediate action at every level of government � federal, state and local. Thank you again for this important opportunity to share my concerns. NAMI looks forward to working with you on this and related issues."
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Gosh puddin, gorgeous pics, thanks! So I will clearly be boo-hooing like a baby all through this next episode too.... I love this cast!!
Our staff will take a Polaroid snap of you posing with our Tigers. You can choose a young tiger or a fully-grown male to sit with depending on your courage!
We use short-tailed macaque monkeys for this show. They are still a kind of common wild animal in Thailand.
]So going back to the family album above, they have a picture with a chimpanzee here, but that's a male one (you can see it's scrotum, and the penis can be seen in the next photo). However, the one in the recent preview is a female.
T/V are heading south on Chao Fah, crossing Wichit Songkhram (compare the view here).
I will say that I have reason to think that we will still have another task we haven't seen yet. They are in Phuket, land of beautiful beaches, right? No way we aren't going to see some beaches/water.
The photo of the monkey is from the plane spoiler, so the Phuket Zoo's our first location.With Mel/Mike at Patong Beach in the morning, I'm guessing we head to the west coast next.Then it's into the town centre for the herbal shop, then the rickshaws onto Suan Luang (sightings in the afternoon).Finish that up with a ride to Wat Thepminit, and rest (or faint) for the evening...Now have we seen the lead two teams anywhere with the three trailing teams? And where do Margie and Luke fit into this?
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Dr. Wallace L. "Wally" Pelton, 78, of Stroud Township, died Friday morning, March 28, 2014, at Pleasant Valley Manor in Hamilton Township, where he was a resident for the past two and a-half years.
Born on Dec. 25, 1935, in Wilkes-Barre, he was a son of the late Leo and Bessie (Evans) Pelton, and lived in Monroe County since 2004, moving from Vermont.
A 1952 graduate of Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, he attended Dickinson College, where he was a member of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity, and graduated from Lycoming College in Williamsport. He received his master's degree from Lehigh University and his Ph.D from Boston University. He was a psychologist, having his own private practice in Brattleboro, Vt., for 35 years.
He was a member of the American Psychological Association.
Wally loved fishing, biking, buffaloes, cowboy hats and rodeos.
Wallace is survived by Anne-Louise Strickland; four children: Wallace N. and Scott E. Pelton, both of Emporium; Dawn Pelton and her husband, Trip Flavin, of Newton, Mass.; and Leslie (Pelton) Nichol and her husband, Peter, of Concord, Mass.; seven grandchildren: Jesse Clark, Travis Bell, Ayden Nichol, Ella Nichol, Isah Nichol, Kaila Pelton-Flavin and Torin Pelton-Flavin; two great-grandchildren, Terra and Kathrin Clark; two stepchildren, Deborah Rosen of East Stroudsburg and Melinda Rosen of Bartonsville; a stepdaughter-in-law, Amy Rosen, wife of the late Jeffery Rosen; three stepgrandchildren; two stepgreat-grandchildren; a son-in-law, Troy Bell of Dunellon, Fla.; a sister-in-law, Sybil Pelton of Dallas; a brother-in-law, Edmund Strickland Jr. of Florida; and one niece and one nephew.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Elisa (Pelton) Bell on Feb. 20, 2012; a brother, Reese E. Pelton; and his father-in-law, Edmund A. Strickland Sr.
There will be a visitation from noon to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 5, at William H. Clark Funeral Home, 1003 Main St., Stroudsburg. The funeral service will follow beginning at 1 p.m. at the funeral home, with the Rev. David Goss officiating. Burial will follow at Laurelwood Cemetery, Stroudsburg.
The family requests that memorial remembrances be made to the Pleasant Valley Manor Activity Fund, 4227 Manor Drive, Stroudsburg, PA 18360; Mount Pocono United Methodist Church, 12 Church Ave., Mount Pocono, PA 18344; or to a charity of one's choice.
A special thanks to the staff at Pleasant Valley Manor and Compassionate Care Hospice for their excellent care and kindness for Wally. During his two and a-half years at Pleasant Valley Manor, Wally was lovingly cared for by his stepdaughter, Debbie Rosen. Special thanks to friends, Dianne Devlin and Esther Pilato, for their loving care and kindness for Wally.
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Dr. Wallace L. "Wally" Pelton, 78, of Stroud Township, died Friday morning, March 28, 2014, at Pleasant Valley Manor in Hamilton Township, where he was a resident for the past two and a-half years.


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State Sen. George Maziarz was joined Friday by representatives of the Niagara Aerospace Museum and local leaders to announce the museum's re-location to the old terminal building at the Niagara Falls International Airport. Paul Faltyn, curator, and Hugh Neeson, developmental director of the Niagara Aerospace Museum, were on hand to announce this re-location back to Niagara County.
The Niagara Aerospace Museum recently entered into a lease with the NFTA to take over two-thirds of the old terminal building at the Niagara Falls International Airport. The new location will give the museum around 15,000 square feet of new display space. The museum is hoping to open its doors to the public at its new location in May. Local representatives worked with NFTA and the Niagara Aerospace Museum to mutually agree upon a lease that would reopen to the public this showcase of Western New York aviation history.
"I am extremely pleased that the Niagara Aerospace Museum is coming back to Niagara County," said Maziarz said. "Western New York has a rich history in aviation, and I am glad that we were able to find a place where the community can enjoy and learn about this history for many years to come. I applaud the Niagara Aerospace Museum and NFTA for providing this permanent venue not only (for) the residents to enjoy, but for the increasing number of tourists flying in and out of the Niagara Falls International Airport."
Faltyn said, "I am excited about the prospects that our new location hold for the future. Being located on an airport opens the doors to new avenues and marketing opportunities. I plan on expanding our existing displays and adding new displays to the over 100 years of collections we have. This great location for the residents and tourists will provide them a great outlet to learn of the rich history of aviation in our area. I thank NFTA and their staff for working closely with us to ensure the enjoyment of this museum will continue on for years to come."
Neeson said, "The development efforts will be focusing on gaining support and publicity for the upcoming reopening of the airport site. The close proximity of this location to not only the airport, but to other aerospace residents such as Calspan and the Air Reserve Station provide a unique location for residents and visitors alike to visit. This site was recently designated as a National Aerospace Historical Site, and I could not think of a better location for the museum."
Bill Ross, chairman of the Niagara County Legislature, said, "The re-location of the Niagara Aerospace Museum to the old terminal is really a win-win for Niagara County. Not only will the museum further advance the airport complex itself, but adding it to the economic engine of this county, including all of the shovel-ready sites in close proximity, I can think of no better place. WNY, and specifically Niagara County, was a birthplace of early aviation, and the Niagara Aerospace Museum will be a great asset to the county's economic development and tourism. "
Steve Richards, supervisor for the Town of Niagara, said, "This new location for the Niagara Aerospace Museum is a perfect fit for the community and the businesses around it. I am pleased that the old terminal will be used to display the history of WNY aviation, and this announcement is a large part to the ongoing success of this area."
Bob Cliffe, supervisor for the Town of Wheatfield, said, "I am extremely pleased the Niagara Aerospace Museum is re-locating to the old terminal, as this is an important piece of economic development to this area. The innovations in aviation that have happened right in this neighborhood both in the past and in the future make this location an essential part of the economic development in this county. I am excited for the opening this spring."
The re-location is funded primarily from private source donations to the Niagara Aerospace Museum. The facility will shortly begin construction for reformatting on the inside to provide visitors a time-line format for visitation. There will be approximately eight to 10 aircrafts displayed among other artifacts, with use for displaying vintage planes on the runway outside upon visitation.