Forget “How to Train Your Dragon”; Dreamworks should’ve made a movie called “How to Train Your Producers”, because clearly Peter Ramsey just isn’t getting it with the expensive box office failure, also known as “Rise of the Guardians”. With the so called family-friendly movie giving children nightmares and the boring run-of-the-mill plotline, combined with the millions of dollars of loss that Dreamworks is barely recovering from, I would rather deal with the evil ‘boogeyman’ protagonist, Pitch than watch it again.

Oh so let me get this straight; family-friendly now includes a tatted, burly Santa, a foul-mouthed Easter Bunny, and a scantily-clad, flirtatious tooth fairy. Oh, isn’t it reassuring that even the youngest generation’s media is being perverted from the classic family-oriented holiday tales to their own personal tot-sized biker (or turbo-powered sleigh) gang. Now, add on top of this the fact that they portray fear or the boogeyman in such a graphic way that the children get nightmares from a “children-friendly movie.” Pitch himself with fill their minds with images of terror and instill violence and darkness into their impressionable minds. A sullen, pale, downright creepy man that looks like he needs to lay off the meth isn’t exactly what kids should be looking at and certainly not laughing at.

Also, a blind guy could see the ending coming after the endlessly repetitive plotline. Seriously, the whole good-vs-evil, underdog-becomes-great thing just isn’t cutting it anymore. We want more! Every single Dreamworks movie seems to follow the basic cookie-cutter model and it’s sickening. The story follows a group filled with clashing personalities that somehow manage to get along and may even become friends. Seen it. Ever heard of ‘Toy Story’. Good overcomes evil or beats odds even with little hope. Literally every. Single. Dreamworks movie. On the face of this earth. Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Antz, Shark Tales: Everything.

Additionally, this movie literally RUINED lives It led to the decision to make substantial layoffs — 350 during the year. During the days of Walt, how many people could say with tear in their eye, “Disney ruined my life?” Honestly? None. Well now literally hundreds can. What a sob story that would be. Wouldn’t a long line of mickey ears filling the unemployment office be a sight? DreamWorks Animation lost a massive sum of $50 million on the film. DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeff Katzenberg even said that Guardians “was the first movie of ours in 17 in a row that didn’t work,” however, “when that happens it makes you rethink everything.…. we’ve done a reset and we’ve done it across the board.” Thank you Peter Ramsey, you’re a dime (something nearly 400 hundred loyal ex-employers won’t have the luxury of having now that they are jobless.)

Do not. I repeat, do not go to this film unless you for some reason just love to have your childhood ripped away and a sea of disappointment crashing over you. If that’s you then go for it, but say goodbye to the days of Toy Story; they are past infinity and beyond. Shrek will forever reside in the swamp; the good ol’ days are orge. And nobody will ever be kung fu fighting again. Well that is unless Peter Ramsey “Move[s] it. Move[s] it out of here and Dreamworks goes back to their roots.

Her warm embrace touched thousands as she made her way through the departing American soldiers in Fort Hood for nearly a decade. Now, the “hug lady” is finding her kindness repaid as she is battling cancer.

The 83-year-old, Elizabeth Laird, is beloved by all the deployed people from that Texas military base because no matter what, she never failed to give each one of them one last hug as they left the Killeen/ Fort Hood Regional Airport.

“This is my way of thanking them for what they do for our country,” Laird said “One day, a soldier hugged me, and that’s the way it started.”

Now, with a GoFundMe page, the soldiers that have felt her kindness are coming to rally by her side and have raised nearly $70,000 toward Laird’s medical bills.

“I met her twice, as many soldiers from Fort Hood do,” former U.S. Army Capt. Rob Allen said. “She was there when we left, and she was there when we came back.”

Allen, who was deployed to Iraq for 15 months in November 2007, remembered the first day Elizabeth hugged him.

“We all said goodbye to our families and got on buses,” Allen said. “Hundreds of us were in line, and one by one, she gave everyone a hug ‘goodbye’—maybe even a kiss on the cheek.”

When Allen returned in the middle of the night, January 2009, he found Laird waiting at her post.

“It was 2 or 3 in the morning, and there she was –hugging everyone as they got off the plane,” Allen said. “It was the middle of the night and without fail, this lady was there. A special lady.”

On her fundraising site, soldiers have been sharing their personal experiences with Laird and donating various amounts of money.

“You were there when I left in 2008 for Iraq and then again when I returned in 2009,” Michael Singleton said “I was nervous because I had never been outside of the country and just lost my Grandmother. That one hug made a huge difference that year, because it reminded me how my grandmother was.”

Though she inspired so many soldiers none of them had known that she had been battling breast cancer since 2005, until this month when doctors told her she was getting worse and couldn’t live alone anymore.

After Laird’s son, Vietnam veteran and former U.S. Marine Richard Dewees, made a fundraising page to help pay her medical expenses and ease the financial cost, the original goal of $10,000 was quickly passed, as money flowed in from all the soldiers she had touched before they left the U.S, not knowing if they would ever return home again.

“Hugging the soldiers is something she says the Lord gave her to do,” Dewees said. “You don’t really pay much attention to it until you finally step back and see what her hugs have meant to other people. She’s changed people’s lives.”

Laird is now feeling better and was released from intensive care and is able to see visitors and a multitude of soldiers and veterans have been at her side. With financial help and caring visits, Laird is being paid back for her infinite care and compassion to the men and women who have risked their lives for our country.

“It’s coming from people she’s hugged,” Allen said. “It’s them hugging back.”

This affects me because my dad recently left Fort Hood to be deployed to Korea and because I was not physically there to send him off, it makes me glad that Miss Laird did.

This affects the world because it is nice to know that not everyone in the world is terrible. There are still some gems and it is reassuring after seeing so many negative and/ or depressing events on the news to see someone doing something good for once.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/19/us/rewind-chowchilla-school-bus-kidnapping/index.html

Traditionally one would be buried in a casket and well…deceased, but not Lynda Carrejo Labendeira and her classmates who were forced by gunmen into a moving van buried six feet underground.

This had become the largest mass kidnapping in the United States.

As a fourth-grader, Labendeira and 25 other children waited for 16 hours buried alive for either rescue or death.

All of them were buried in their ‘coffin’; the younger ones cried while the older ones tried to comfort them as the stench of rot intensified in the California sun.

This was 39 years ago, however now, the victims said they are reliving this nightmare.

Since yesterday, November 19th, the last kidnapper in prison, Fred Woods, could be paroled, though his sentence had been life without the possibility of parole.

“I just get nauseous at the very thought of it,” Carrejo Labendeira said.

The days leading up to yesterday had been fear-stricken and nauseous.

“[I am] living the whole ordeal all over again … the whole kidnapping, just the buried alive, just the flashes of everything that has happened.” Labendeira said.

July 15, 1976, the second-to-last day of summer school for the kids at Dairyland Elementary School in Chowchilla, was a beautiful day.

“We loved summer school. It was such a good time,” Carrejo Labendeira said. “We did arts and crafts, woodwork, ceramics. I just remember doing water balloon tosses, and we’d play fun games like truth and dare out in the park.”

They had so much fun that Carrejo Labendeira’s “little boyfriend” ,Jeff Brown, even started a petition, wanting two more weeks of summer school, that everyone, including the teachers and the bus driver, Edward Ray, signed.

So now, children between the ages 5 and 14 hopped on the bus absolutely delighted with the youngest ones still in their swimsuits after a visit to the community pool.

Driving down the narrow Avenue 21, they saw a van in the middle of the rural road, blocking the bus.
“Its hood was up, and Edward, our driver, couldn’t do anything but slow down and try to go around it,” Carrejo Labendeira said.

“But being the gentleman farmer that he was, he started to offer help. And as quick as his words were coming out, they jumped on the bus with their guns pointed at us. And the rifle. And told Edward to go to the back of the bus.”

The gunmen’s faces were concealed with pantyhose, so no one could see them.

That is when Carrejo Labendeira hid under her seat, only inches away from the barrels of the guns, while her three sisters panicked at the back of the bus.

Taking control, the gunmen drove the bus through a thicket, jostling the students with each stalk the bus hit.

“The bamboo was as high as the bus, and we were just being shaken all over,” Carrejo Labendeira said.
This fleet did not stop until they arrived at a concealed ditch where two vans were waiting. Outside stood the gunmen, telling the children to get inside.

“It was dark, the windows were painted in. No one could see in, and no one could see out,” she said.

Nine-year-old Jennifer Brown Hyde said the conditions were miserable.

“It was hot. It was over 100 degrees,” Brown Hyde said. “No water. No bathroom.”

At nightfall, they stopped at a rocky place near Livermore– about 100 miles northwest of their original location.

Carrejo Labendeira thinks she knows why they drove around for so long.

“I’m sure they had to (wait) until a time when they knew no one would be able to be around, no workers, to see 26 children get buried.”

The California Rock & Gravel Quarry, where they stopped, was owned by the father of one of the kidnappers, Fred Woods.

But at this time, only the gunman and hostages were around.

The kidnappers then asked every child for their name, age, address and phone number, and also took a piece of clothing or a belonging from each student.

However, they never explained why they had took the children, shushing them every time they asked.

“I only recall them ever telling us to shut up and be quiet,” Carrejo Labendeira said.

With only construction lights very dimly lighting up the quarry, the kidnappers ordered the captives into a massive grave where the moving band was hidden underground.

“It was buried into the earth. It was like a tomb,” Carrejo Labendeira said. “It was like a coffin. It was like a giant coffin for all of us.”

They children then climbed down a ladder into a van, which was then covered by several layers of dirt. When the last kid entered, they removed the ladder.

Enough food for one meal, several dirty mattresses, and a makeshift toilet were the onlt thing found in their prison.

“There were times we all thought we were dying.” Labenderia said.

Brown Hyde thought she was about to die, especially because the ventilation system stopped.

“The fans that they put in … the batteries had died,” Hyde said. “In my small mind, you think, ‘That’s it.'”

The little ones screamed and cried for their parents and God.

“I promised God if I survived this, I would be the best little girl … I’d be the best little girl my whole entire life.” Hyde said.

Finally when hope was little to none, some students and bus driver decided to try to stack mattresses to escape through a metal plate in the roof.

“If we’re going to die, we’re going to die doing something,” Brown Hyde recalled. “We’re not going to die sitting here.”

However, the plate was covered by a huge truck battery followed by several feet of dirt but the driver and older boys struggled to move it.

“Edward’s digging up and out, Mike’s digging, Jeff’s digging, Robert’s digging,” Labendeira said.

She, on the other hand, hid the whole time because she didn’t know where the kidnappers were.\

“Are they up there waiting for us? And are we going to get shot for coming out? Because all you saw with them were the guns.” Labendeira said.

Eventually, their efforts payed off, cleared an escape path and they managed to flee.

They couldn’t have picked a better time–the kidnappers were asleep. They then began looking for help.

“There was a man up above, one man, and he knew exactly who we were before we even said anything,” Carrejo Labendeira said.

“The gentleman came down and said, ‘This world’s been looking for you.’ He knew exactly who we were.”

When trialed, Woods, along with his brothers, pleaded guilty and each were given 27 life sentences without chance of parole.\

That brought some comfort to Carrejo Labendeira’s childhood.

“We felt safe in Chowchilla. We felt safe growing up knowing we were assured that they would never get out,” she said. “Knowing that the kidnappers were in prison, we weren’t scared they were going to come get us. They said, ‘They’ll never get out, you’ll never have to worry.'”

Now, she says, she has to.

Because, the appellate court has now stated since the men caused no serious bodily injury, they should have the chance for parole.

Richard Schoenfeld was paroled in 2012, his brother James was released earlier this year, and now Woods paroled yesterday.

“Mr. Woods has no animosity toward any of them,” Handleman said. “He is absolutely apologetic and recognizes he committed a horrible crime.”

This affects both me and the world because the court and jail are being wishy-washy in their decisions, which could cause other people to see this, causing more crime. Also, the whole town of Chowchilla was affected by this kidnapping, but now, the kidnappers are being let free, back into society, to do as they please.

November 10th, on Dr. Phil, the first found victim of the Jared Fogle sex scandal spoke out.

16 year old Analisa, told Dr Phil about her life altering experience with Russell Taylor, the former Executive Director of The Jared Foundation, who had been secretly recording her when she was just 14.

Two weeks ago , Dr. Phil showed secret audio recordings of the former Subway spokesperson talking about luring and abusing children. This made Analissa contact the show because she couldn’t remain silent any longer and felt compelled to speak for the other victims.

One of WTHRs reporters asked Dr. Phil how he found Analissa’s story.

“You know what? I want to come forward. I want to tell my story,” Analissa said, “There are others out there like me, either in this situation, in this case or others sitting silent or suffering and I don’t want that to happen. “

After talking to Analissa, Dr Phil found she was a very intellectual young girl who is now able to recognize threats.

“…if she looks back at this now with the benefit of 20/20 hindsight she’s like, ‘oh, my. I now recognize what grooming was going on. I now recognize what a mistake I made,” Dr Phil said, “I now recognize the manner in which I was victimized.”

Thogh this was a terrible experience, it helped Analissa learn.

“This is a teachable moment and I think every parent needs to watch what is going on here.” Dr Phil said.

Analissa said Russell Taylor would often make inappropriate sexual comments with her she was at his home and during the investigation, she and her mother found that hidden cameras had been placed by Taylor throughout the home.

“He seemed okay at first. He seemed like a nice person, but as time progressed, it kind of got creepier and creepier,” Analissa said.

She now thinks he was grooming her to have sex with him for when she turned 16. That fortunately never happened, however, the experience left Analissa with emotional scars that will take a long time to heal.

“He took my happiness, he took my trust, he took my pride, everything. I feel so low. I feel like nothing,” Analissa said.

This affects me because Analissa was my age when she was being groomed and it is extremely sad that such a young girl had to go through this traumatizing event.
This affects the world because Child molestation and rape is a rising epidemic all around the world and new technology is making it that much easier.

White Oak High School’s Regiment of Roughnecks received CD fifth in the Class 3A finals in the Texas State Marching Band Contest. Late Saturday night, after White Oak’s final performance at the Alamodome in San Antonio, results were released. The band is the top military-style band in 3A, according to the school district. They performed firstly shortly after 4 p.m. in prelims. Their finals performance began at about 9:30 p.m.

Regiment of Roughnecks practiced one last time late Monday night, trying in insure a placing.

“We made it to the finals,” White Oak ISD Superintendent Mike Gilbert said, “We’re marching again at 9:30 (p.m.).”

Director Jason Steele and his 180-member military band was put up against 19 other bands in the 3a district from all across the state to compete in the ultimate marching contest.

“There are 10 bands that are marching in the finals,” Gilbert said. “And one band will win the state championship, actually for a two-year period.

Monday’s competition was only for 2A and 3A high schools, while 1A and 5A schools competed Tuesday. 4A and 6A schools go to state next year.

White Oak was the only band in Gregg county to make it to state.

“And we’re the only military band there,” White Oak journalism teacher Karen Cook said.

The superintendent said the band looked sharp and precise even in the first round of contest.

“I’ve had several people who watch every contest tell me their performance today was the best they’d ever seen — sound, marching, everything involved,” Gilbert said.

This affects me because I am a member of the band and this continues the legacy they have upheld for so long. One of the other competing bands said that they haven’t been to state for 23 years, therefore it is a privilege to be part of this program.

This affects the world because it is dealing with UIL which is a national thing and state is the highest one can go in marching.

Found originally in Longview News Journal

“Don’t bury me.” 6-year-old Fareed Shawky pleas as doctors try and tend his missile wounds.

  Though he is just a child, 6 months of war in his country, Yemen, has showed him exactly what happens when people die–they get buried.

“Don’t bury me,” Shawky cries again.

Meanwhile, his father stands across the room, smiling, trying to will away his child fear.

His father, al-Thamry Shawky tries to keep calm, yet tears rolled down his face as he hoped Fareed wouldn’t have to feel afraid.

Alas four days later, Fareed died from head injuries. The boy’s relatives hurriedly buried him-save his father that couldn’t break him promise.

Upon hearing of this death, Ahmed Basha, a local photographer, sorrow filled, posted a video online of Fareed begging for his life.

Even when little else on Yemen’s war seemed important, this video was picked up by social media and quickly gained attention.

Little Fareed is bringing the war we once forgot back to life, say activists.

Fareed’s story is now symbolic of Yemen’s struggles. Using hashtag #dontburyme, activists call for an end of bloodshed. This audio reminds then of similar stories in other countries such as Aylan Kurdi  from Syria.

This hashtag originally started in Arabic, but as news spread, it became translated to English.

“A child in #taiz told his father after he was injured: “Do not bury me.” Sadly the father could not [fulfill] his son’s call #Dontburyme” Kawkab Ahmed, a Turkish observer, said on Twitter.

His mother is obviously devastated as she explains how Fareed was her whole life. She also blames his death on Houthi rebels because he was just playing hide-and-go-seek when the missile hit him. Four other children were also wounded.

“All of a sudden I heard a loud explosion,” al-Thamry Shawky told Basha, “I ran out into the street with no shirt to look for Fareed. Where is Fareed?”

Neighbors soon informed him that Fareed had been taken by an ambulance because if his injuries. He then rushed to be by his boy’s side. Sadly, he didn’t look to good. Rubble had fallen on Fareed’s head and shrapnel dug into his small body all over his skin.

Shortly after being his father to save him, Fareed fell into a coma and died last Saturday.

“Fareed was my whole life,” his mother says. “It was as if someone snatched my heart when I heard him say, ‘Don’t bury me.'”

Aside from being funny, I chose this person and article because it shows that sometimes we don’t need to try and dig for some bigger truth from something so black and white. Using this for instance, when the man bought a ticket for one place simply because it was a little cheaper. We try to see the big moral in the world even when it can just be exactly what it seems. Also, this reminds me of Robert Frost’s poem, “For Once, Then, Something” Where as humans, we are always looking for a deeper meaning but often the truth is elusive. Therefore we should stop searching so hard. Stop questioning so much and simply enjoy life for what it is.

http://www.humansofnewyork.com/post/131419838846/i-lost-my-id-twenty-years-ago-and-havent-been

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An emergency meeting will be held Friday, Feb. 6. over whether the school should rent computers for Journalism, because of a three-week shutdown of software at the school, after a security breach, that would cause a major setback for the yearbook.

The cause for this shutdown is that a breach in the system was found by Ed Robles, district technology director. He discovered that the school’s system had been hacked, resulting in the loss of several files including tests and grades. As of now, no suspects have been found though the police department has started an investigation.

“The police are getting closer to the hacker…” Robles said, “He or she only left a few bread crumbs for us to follow.”

Because of this, a tradition going back 22 years, might not make it this year. “Yearbook day” is scheduled for May 29th. However, this year, with the computer shutdowns it might not be possible, disappointing everyone.

Not making the deadline for the yearbook “…would essentially kill an important tradition at the school,” Rodney Stephens, yearbook adviser said, “Ten years ago…I asked the principal if I should eliminate the event, and he was floored that I would even ask.”

Even though having this shutdown will be a huge inconvenience, officials believe it is something that had to be done in order to prevent any further harm.

“We understand the inconvenience of the shutdown, but it is necessary.” Robles said.

All students (even the ones that aren’t in journalism), are affected by this. Many not able to come back at a different time other than the end of the year, when it was originally scheduled.

“I am going out of state for college, and I am leaving the week after school is out,” Reggie White, senior, said, “I will certainly not be able to come back for a signing party in the summer or fall.”

Hearing this information, members of the yearbook committee are worried but still hope for the best. Desperately needing the computers, to finish in time for the company.

“If the board doesn’t approve the $500 expenditure, I am not sure what we will do,” Rodney Stephens, yearbook adviser, said, “I would rather not think that way. I am hoping for the best and crossing my fingers.”

South Carolina flooding: Dams breached,

more trouble ahead

                           Originally wrote by Holly Yan and Ray Sanchez, CNN

Though the rain stopped, South Carolina is dealing with a whole new set of problems. A dam breaks, billions of dollars of damage is done, and the river hasn’t even hit his highest point yet.

Officials warn that they must be extremely careful in this situation. Caution has to be taken for about the next three days.

“The next 36 to 48 hours are going to be a time that we need to continue to be careful.”   Gov. Nikki Haley  said, “We still have to be cautious,”

Haley has provided an estimate of the “disturbing” damage cost but also said that state and federal Emergency Management Agency officials were making assessments.

“It’s hard to look at the loss we’re going to have,” Haley said. “This could be any amount of dollars.”

Affecting about 16 water systems, more than 400,000 state residents were under a ‘boil water advisory’, a public health advisory or directive given by government or health authorities to consumers when a community’s drinking water is, or could be, contaminated by pathogens, an infectious agent, said Jim Beasley, a spokesman for the S.C. Emergency Response Team.

The latest on this giant flooding problem is below.

Since Saturday, 35 dams are being monitored while 11 dams have failed in South Carolina, the state’s Emergency Management Division said.

One massive failure at Overcreek Bridge dam in Richland County’s Forest Acres sent flood waters roaring downstream and forced evacuations near Columbia.

Also in Richland County, officials allowed water to breach from one other dam. The controlled breaches are to help officers  “…prevent a much larger incident and a much larger amount of water escaping from the dam,”  emergency management spokesman Derrec Becker said.

National Guards have been helping with sandbagging operations and other mitigation efforts.

As of now, 17 people have died due to these weather related issues: 15 in South Carolina and 2 in North. At least 9 drowned and six died in traffic accidents, reported South Carolina’s Department of Public Safety.

North Carolina also reported to deaths in traffic accidents in Cumberland and Jackson counties.

There has been 175 water rescues and 800 people are living in temporary housing said Haley.

70 miles of interstate 95 is still closed with five to eight bridges still undergoing structural checks.

Everyone in the Carolinas is affected by this, including the deceased.

Caskets have been seen floating down the river after being uprooted from the cemetery and washed away.

While in an interview, Wayne Reeves, pastor of New Life Ministries in Summerville, saw a casket float down the river and proceeded to head into the waist-deep water and retrieve it.

“That’s somebody’s family out there,” he told CNN affiliate WCBD-TV. “That’s (a) family suffering. That’s their family there that popped up from under the ground. And I think it’s the human thing to do.”

It turns out that they family was watching as Reeves carried the casket, still adorning white and pink flowers, out of the water.

“This family don’t want to sit on the edge of this road all night long watching their family members bob in the water like that,” the pastor said

“If that was my mom or my dad, I’d walk through hell and high water. And today it happened to be high water.”

To add on top of all of this, apartments that people were forced to evacuate have found to be looted.

Monday, Pamela Courts arrived at  her apartment and found not just flood damage but signs of theft.

“Overnight, we had a break-in, so whatever was upstairs they came and took: TVs, jewelry, everything,” she said.

And yet the rivers are still rising. The flooding is far from over and the river isn’t expected to crest for another to weeks.

This affects both me and the world because though I don’t live in the Carolinas, I have family friends that do and the amount of damage and death is devastating.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/06/us/south-carolina-flooding/

                                                                                                                  Retold by Hailey Narvaez

Since 1937, more than 1600 people have committed suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate bridge. This is just one of many suicide hotspots located in the world. Considered such because people use it so frequently to take their lives.

A new theory emerges that says different types of interventions will help to prevent what is happening or at least diminish it. At these places such a  cliffs, bridges, or other high sunmits, suicide rates skyrocket.

Jane Pirkis, a professor at Australia’s University of Melbourne in the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, and her colleagues have done a study that shows the affect of placing these interventions in 18 hotspots in the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, China and Europe.

Their results found that putting   up barriers ans railway platforms reduced suicide risks by 93 percent and providing  help numbers  cause  a reduction of 61 percent.

“These numbers are phenomenal,” said Dr. Eric D. Caine, director of the Injury Control Research Center for Suicide Prevention at the University of Rochester Medical Center. Though Caine was  not involved in the study, he wrote a commentary on it which was  published in the journal Lancet.

Sadly, interventions at these  hotspots will not have a huge impact on the overall suicide rate because they are only a small percentage. Out of approximately 40,000 people in the US that commit suicide, 52 percent use guns, 25 hanging, 16 poisoning, while only 2 percent use tall heights or 1 percent in from of moving objects.

Even though putting interventions in place are a good idea, “we have got to have a strategy where fewer people come to suicide attempts, (because) once someone is determined to die, it is much harder to intervene,” Cain said. This idea should include helping the mentally ill and abused he added.

To summarize, the analysis shows that there are three strategies can help significantly: providing self help information, restricting access to sites, and making  it easier for another  person to help.

Impacting and encouraging a person with ways to get help through the phone is a decent way to get to people easily. However, it has had a backwards effect in the past by ‘advertising’ hotspots subsequently increasing rates.

By restricting access to sites, you greatly decrease the amount of suicides in those areas (between 62 and 99%). Some suicide hot spots where barriers were linked with fewer suicides include Ellington Bridge, Memorial Bridge, Gap Park, and many others.

Stationing  police and other  officer s on site have helped intervene in cases. This will also be  more cost efficient. However, it will require a person to be there at all times which could be a little difficult.

To conclude, new studies reveal that suicide hotspots could be effaced simply by doing the above things.

This effects both me and the world because it is helping a person, full of potential, to have another chance at turning their life around and living with just a simple solution. Also, though it is just a small percentage, and even if it only saved one person; to the world that might just be another number or stat, but to their family or peers, they could  be their whole world.

My Katpaw committed suicide last month and him being such a great man, affected everyone that knew him. I received a message from his wife late  that day saying, “I’ll bring very same  news to the people I love. I lost a very close loved one this morning. If anyone knew a wonderful man with a huge heart that never poke harm of anyone, I lost  him. He is in heaven. That is my wish for everyone to know. I am very sad and heartbroken but I am okay. I will travel  the journey that the Lord provides for me. No phone calls please.” The week before I was talking to him about college, music, cars, just life I’m general and he seemed perfectly fine. There’s no reasons to go into the what-ifs at this point but I still believe this is a fulfilling anecdote.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/23/health/saving-lives-worlds-suicide-hot-spots/

Saving lives at 18 of the world’s suicide ‘hot spots’

By Carina Storrs, Special to CNN