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Olga works as a personal trainer, both prenatal and postnatal, and says she is always teaching the moms to be aware of their abs. "It's hard to get the shape and the function back after the pregnancy," says Olga. "My twin girls were born in November 2009 (in week 38) and I started to use the Belly Bandit the day after the delivery (it was natural birth) and I used it for 7 weeks, both day and night. In the beginning I was doing Pilates breathing exercises each time I breastfed so that I could start feeling my deep abs muscles. It was important for me 'to get in touch' with my abs as soon as possible so I wouldn't hurt my lower back with all the lifting I was doing. I needed all the support I could and the Belly Bandit made it possible. Two weeks later I started my abs training with static exercises, including different types of planks (with the wrap on of course), but no sit ups or crunches. Today I am able to squeeze my abs without any support. If I compare the shape I am in now to the shape I was in after my other pregnancies there is no comparison. I am in much better shape now than after my other three kids. I believe that it's very important to start using the Belly Bandit as soon as possible after the delivery for the best results."
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About Us
The landscaping department here at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is part of the Buildings and Grounds Management division of the Office of Facilities and Grounds. Our motto is "People Serving With Pride, Joy, and Aloha!" and we live up to that every day we are on the job. We are responsible for maintaining the grounds of the main campus, as well as a few of the University's outlying areas. A map of the areas we maintain can be found here.
We are the ones who mow your lawns, trim your hedges, pull your weeds, and landscape your green spaces. Our equipment operators also dispose of campus waste, collect recycling, move earth, and fill pot holes, among many other things. We also have a full-service nursery on campus which provides plants for various activities and gatherings around the University, maintains our stock plants, and is also responsible for vector control. So now you know where to come for all your rat, roach, and ant traps!
Serving the University is extremely rewarding, and serving with pride, joy, and aloha is easy when we know our hard work provides a world-class learning environment for the future of our not only our state, but the world at large.
Our Goals
- To develop the campus grounds into a botanical garden that faculty and students can use as a resource for teaching and learning.
- To develop and maintain a beautiful and sustainable park-like setting enjoyed by students, faculty, staff and visitors.
- To build a program based on a more efficient process in order to open communication and understanding between workers, management, administration, the public and the community.
- To develop a comprehensive refuse and recycling program.
- To create gathering spaces throughout the campus to promote interaction and collegiality.
- To have a staff that takes pride in their work and the campus grounds, and is trained and respected in the landscape industry.
- To identify plants with horticultural and botanical significance and label, catalog, and map them, along with all assets and utilities we maintain.
- Use our resources wisely and create sustainable landscapes.
Hours of Operation
- Monday-Friday 6 a.m.- 2:30 p.m.
Scheduled State Holidays 2014
- Jan. 1 - New Year's Day - Wednesday
- Jan. 20 - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr Day - Monday
- Feb. 17 - President's Day - Monday
- Mar. 26 - Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianaole Day - Wednesday
- Apr. 18 - Good Friday - Friday
- May 26 - Memorial Day - Monday
- June 11 - King Kamehameha I Day - Wednesday
- July 4 - Independence Day - Friday
- Aug. 15 - Statehood Day - Friday
- Sept. 1 - Labor Day - Monday
- Nov. 4 - General Election Day - Tuesday
- Nov. 11 - Veterans' Day - Tuesday
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Climate: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Daily life in the developed world has depended so much, for so long, on clean water that it is sometimes easy to forget how precious a commodity water is. The average American citizen doesn't have to work for his water; he has only to turn on the tap. But in much of the rest of the world, it isn't that simple. More than a billion people worldwide lack clean water, most of them in developing countries. The least fortunate may devote whole days to finding some.When they fail—and they fail more and more often now that rivers in Africa and Asia are slowly drying up after decades of mismanagement and climate change—they may turn to violence, fighting over the small amount that is left. Water has long been called the ultimate renewable resource. But as Fred Pearce writes in his book "When the Rivers Run Dry," if the world doesn't change, that saying may no longer apply.Like the famines of the '80s, the global water crisis is far more than a straightforward issue of scarcity. Accidents of... -
New Research into Pain Treatment
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Knees in Need of Help
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Can States Close the Research Funding Gap?
Last week, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick announced a plan to boost the state budget for life sciences by $1.25 billion. The proposal immediately grabbed attention for its vision of a vast stem-cell bank, the world's largest, which would open up new opportunities for embryonic stem-cell research. It's a reaction, of course, to the federal government's refusal to pay for such work. But amid the excitement over stem cells, another part of Patrick's proposal got overlooked. It, too, addresses a crisis of funding at the federal level, albeit one that has gotten far less press: the stagnating budget of the National Institutes of Health, a problem that is hurting not just stem- cell researchers but biologists at large, particularly young researchers at the most vulnerable points in their careers.The NIH was once flush with money. Its budget doubled between 1998 and 2003 on the strength of enthusiastic support in Congress. Universities responded, hiring faculty and starting ambitious... -
Baby Boomers Find New Ways to Keep Young
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Narcotic Lollipops: Are Patients Abusing Them?
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Healthy Reading: 'Sick' Examines U.S. Health Care
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Making Sense Of Melting Ice
Every year, the cap of sea ice floating atop the North Pole dwindles from about 14 million to 7 million square kilometers—a number that would panic scientists if it weren't a normal occurrence, courtesy of nature. Most of the summer shrinkage is caused by melting, and the pack ice grows again once winter arrives, freezing the choppy water back into solid sheets. Because it's a recurring cycle, scientists have never found this phenomenon worrisome. Until this year, when Ronald Kwok of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory rang the alarm. He'd noticed that in 2005, little of the ice that had formed the previous winter had gone on to survive the summer—making the Arctic cap the smallest it had been in five decades.The polar regions are notorious shape-shifters. Complex ecosystems, they can be swayed by factors from wind to water to warming, and their forbidding climate makes on-site research difficult. As a result, they're a bit of a mystery to scientists, and their future is hard to... -
Transcript: Lance Armstrong on Surviving Cancer
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Heart Health: Surprise Findings for Doctors
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Health: Can Exercise Make You Smarter?
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Books: Sex, Lies and Cigarettes in America
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Higher Math From Medieval Islam
Ancient, closely held religious secrets; messages encoded on the walls of Middle Eastern shrines; the divine golden ratio—readers of a recent issue of the journal Science must have wondered if they'd mistakenly picked up "The Da Vinci Code" instead. In stretches of intricate tiling on several 500-year-old Islamic buildings, Peter Lu and Paul Steinhardt wrote, they'd spotted a large fragment of a mathematical pattern that was unknown to Western science until the 1970s. Islam gave the world algebra, from the Arabic al-jabr, a term referring to a basic equation. But this pattern is far from basic; it comes from much higher math. "The ridiculous thing is, this pattern has been staring Westerners in the face all this time," says Keith Critchlow, author of the book "Islamic Patterns." "We simply haven't been able to read it." Now that we can, though, it is serving as a startling indication of how accomplished medieval-era Muslims may have been.No one knows what the architects of the... -
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When surgeons removed Carol Hurlburt's diseased gallbladder in 2005, they had to cut a long, gory incision in her abdomen, and she was still hurting when her husband developed his own gallbladder infection a month later. Richard Hurlburt, however, was a candidate for a less painful, minimally invasive procedure performed with the aid of cameras inserted through small holes in his abdomen—a "laparoscopic cholecystectomy" that would have him home the next day. But, Carol says, Richard's common bile duct, which links the gallbladder, liver and small intestine, was cut. Over the next eight months, Richard became sicker and died waiting for a liver transplant. What was supposed to be a simple procedure ended in tragedy. Determining what caused it all, and where it went wrong, has moved from the hands of doctors to the hands of lawyers. Last summer, Carol filed suit.One of the most common surgical procedures in the country, performed on 750,000 patients annually, laparoscopic gallbladder... -
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The Problem: To celebrate the anniversary of Charles Darwin's birthday, on Feb. 12, 1809, Bob Stephens, a retired scientist, is organizing more than 850 celebrations worldwide--parties with bearded impersonators, serious debates and a guy in England who's skipping work, in jest, on religious grounds. How can American proponents of intelligent design respond? The Answer: The Discovery Institute, America's major proponent of intelligent design, is sponsoring a talk on whether Darwin is "being turned into a saint for secular humanists." The institute's John West says he wants to counteract events that "bash religion." Stephens's reply: while the Darwin Day events include 500-plus pro-evolution sermons, he's publicizing the institute's event with all the others, since he rejects only those that are "really quite inappropriate." In other words, even an odd fit will survive. -
To Reach for the Moon
Western analysts still can't say what Beijing was thinking when it shot down one of its aging weather satellites. True, the recent test was a fine show of marksmanship, destroying a refrigerator-size target sailing at orbital speed 500 miles up (as high as U.S. spy satellites). But was it worth risking a new arms race? Was it even worth the mess it caused? The Union of Concerned Scientists says the test left some 2 million pieces of shrapnel in orbit, each one a threat to any country's passing spacecraft. That's why Washington and Moscow gave up such tests decades ago: the space lanes are already littered with too much potentially lethal debris.The drifting wreckage is a danger not only to other countries' spacecraft but to China's own ambitions for the heavens--which go far beyond blinding the U.S. military. Beijing put its first man into orbit less than four years ago. Today the Chinese are reaching for the moon. The first step, the launching of an unmanned lunar orbiter, is... -
Longevity: The Nobel Effect
The nobel prize isa lot more than a medal. Winners get $1.4 million and the world's best résumé line. Here's another thing to file under "life's not fair": Nobel winners also live longer. New research from the University of Warwick says that academics who get the fateful phone call from Sweden stick around about two years longer than colleagues who don't make the final list. The effect mirrors what's been seen before in Oscar winners, whose life spans grow with every statue they take home. (Tom Hanks will be with us forever.) Since only four people have ever won multiple Nobels, though--and one, Marie Curie, had a shorter life because of her prize-winning work on dangerous radiation--the researchers couldn't document a truly identical trend. Still, they were able to figure out that, as with Oscars, it wasn't the cash that did the trick. Apparently, the key to long life among Nobel laureates was simply having the bragging rights.The research has some lessons for mere mortals, too: it... -
International Periscope
Does the international war on terror have a new front? Earlier this month, police in western Xinjiang province swept down on a camp where, Chinese authorities say, armed Muslims were stockpiling explosives: 18 militants were shot dead and 17 arrested. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said the militants were members of the Eastern Turkistan Islamic Movement (ETIM) who had "carried out a series of violent terrorist activities" and were "associated with international terrorist forces." It was the first time China had ever claimed the presence of a foreign-linked terrorist base on its soil.For decades China has battled militants of the Muslim, Turkic-speaking Uighur minority who seek an independent homeland. After the U.S. launched its "war on terror" in 2001, China began to brand the separatists "international terrorists," with Washington's approval. But it never proved a foreign link. After the recent raid, however, the official Xinhua news agency claimed that Al Qaeda had... -
Escaping A Moral Mess
Stem-cell research is divided into two major camps: one focused on cells from adults, the other on the controversial technique that destroys embryos. Now there may be a third way--a new category of stem cells that are readily available, perhaps ethically trouble-free and possibly as powerful and as flexible in function as their embryonic counterparts: amniotic-fluid stem cells, found in both the placenta and the liquid that surrounds growing fetuses.The cells are "neither embryonic nor adult. They're somewhere in between," says Dr. Anthony Atala, a tissue-engineering specialist at Wake Forest University, who led a team that published the findings last week in the journal Nature Biotechnology. The "AFS cells" rival embryonic stem cells in their ability to multiply and transform into many different cell types, and they eventually could be hugely helpful to doctors in treating diseases throughout the body and building new organs in the lab. At the same time, the amniotic cells can be... -
When The Body Attacks Itself
The immune system is what keeps most people's bodies healthy and free of disease, but for as many as 23 million Americans, it is a cause of disease, too. In autoimmune disorders, the system goes haywire, mistaking the body's own tissues for foreign invaders and destroying them. Drugs for these conditions, which include type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis and lupus, have been elusive. But on Sunday, scientists are reporting in the journal Nature that they have found a set of 30 genes that go awry in autoimmune disorders—and that could be potential targets for cures. NEWSWEEK's Mary Carmichael spoke with two of the discoverers, Richard Young, a biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute, and Alexander Marson, an M.D./Ph.D. student in Young's lab. Excerpts:NEWSWEEK: What do these 30 genes normally do in a healthy person's body?Richard Young: There was a very, very important discovery made about a decade ago, which was that a specialized class of ... -
A New Era Begins
Stem-cell research is divided into two major camps: one focused on cells from adults, the other on the controversial technique that destroys embryos. But important research published Sunday supports the idea of a third way, a new category of stem cells that are readily available, perhaps ethically trouble-free and possibly as powerful and flexible in function as their embryonic counterparts: "amniotic-fluid stem cells," found in both the placenta and the liquid that surrounds growing fetuses.The cells are "neither embryonic nor adult. They're somewhere in between," says Dr. Anthony Atala, a tissue-engineering specialist at Wake Forest University who led the research team. (The study appears in the journal Nature Biotechnology.) The "AFS cells" rival embryonic stem cells in their ability to multiply and transform into many different cell types, and they eventually could be hugely helpful to doctors in treating diseases throughout the body and building new organs in the lab. At the... -
Stem Cells Are Where It's At
Seventeen years ago, Richard Burt, an immunologist at Northwestern University, had a crazy idea. What if he could press the "restart" button on his patients, destroying their faulty immune systems and building them new ones? The regeneration process would be hard, but he'd heard about something called stem-cell research that might help. It took eight years to get FDA approval. "When we did that first patient," he says, "you could have cut the atmosphere with a knife."Today Burt has treated 170 patients with stem cells, and increasingly, others are following his lead. There are now more than 1,000 stem-cell therapies in early human trials around the world. The vast majority use cells from patients' own bone marrow, but doctors are also using cells from healthy adults, and last month saw the first patient treated with embryonic cells, which have triggered much debate in the United States. After years of being thought of as science fiction--the domain of animal labs and the distant... -
A Terrible Mystery
Thomas Insel spent years training as a psychiatrist in the 1970s, and in all that time he saw not one child with autism. In 1985, curiosity sent him searching; it took several phone calls to find a single patient. His only prior exposure to the disorder was a lecture in which Bruno Bettelheim "explained that it was due to evil mothers." The '70s were, he says, "an era of psychiatry that had no science."Today's psychiatry has science--and it is science--and increasingly, it is offering hope for patients with autism. As director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Insel now heads an agency that funds autism research all over the nation and also conducts projects of its own. Thanks to revolutions in neuroscience and genetics, scientists are starting to unravel the shroud of mystery that has hung over autism since it was first described in 1943. But with each new discovery, more questions arise.That includes the most fundamental question of all: what is autism? Although the... -
Drugs: Family Docs Join the Drug War
In the war on drugs, the White House has tried just about every weapon--punitive policy, rehab programs, ads featuring fried eggs. For its next strike, it has some new recruits: family doctors. Seventeen states currently have simple, federally funded drug-and-alcohol-screening programs in place at major trauma centers. The Office of National Drug Control Policy is now trying to take the idea into general practitioners' offices nationwide. "Most people who have a problem with drinking are right under the radar, and they're not seeing specialists. Family doctors could find them," says Larry Gentilello, professor of surgery at the University of Texas-Southwestern Medical School. "We're trying to convince these doctors that if they do nothing else ... they will have had a major impact on public health," says Bertha Madras, the ONDCP's deputy director for demand reduction. She may well be right. Gentilello, who came up with an early version of the questionnaire favored by the ONDCP, says... -
The Writer Will See You Now
It's not an official medical report, and it won't help doctors treat the patient it's about, but Dr. Dena Rifkin's write-up tells a story that the dry clinical language of medicine never could. "There are startling moments that you don't forget," it begins, and clearly this was one of them—a night in which a young Rifkin, not even yet an M.D., stumbled out of sleep and into a patient's room to find him soaked in blood. "The patient looked up at me, and opened his mouth as if to speak," she writes. "Blood came out instead of words, slick and shiny as an oil spill."That patient is long since out of her hands, and it's too late to help him. But by writing about him, Rifkin may be helping herself—and, in the long run, her future patients. The piece was her submission to a Yale writing workshop for young doctors taught by the medical writer Dr. Abraham Verghese. Rifkin liked the seminar so much she went back for a second round with author Dr. Richard Selzer. And the program's or... -
A Piece of the Puzzle
Earlier this week, scientists announced that they had for the first time pinpointed a common version of a gene that strongly increases the risk for autism. Children with the gene variant have more than double the normal risk of developing the disorder. Researchers say the gene, called MET, is definitely not the only one with a role in autism—other genetic differences, as well as environmental factors, are almost certainly involved—but the discovery has the potential to reshape the way scientists search for those causes. However, it's important to note that it will be years before the true impact of this research will be known. NEWSWEEK's Mary Carmichael spoke with Vanderbilt University's Pat Levitt, a developmental neurobiologist who led the study. Excerpts:NEWSWEEK: What does the MET gene do? How does it work, or in cases of autism, not work?Pat Levitt: The gene does a lot of different things. First, for the architecture of the brain to develop properly, there are genes whose... -
Case Study: A Standard Approach
It's been 124 years since caleb Cooley Dickinson, cousin of the poet Emily, endowed the hospital in Northampton, Mass., that bears his name--and he'd barely recognize the modern institution it has become. Cooley Dickinson Hospital has gleaming operating rooms; in April 2007, it will open a large new building. Nonetheless, a few things haven't changed much at the hospital since its benefactor was alive. Take its way of keeping medical records. In the age of smart cards, Cooley Dickinson manages its medication information using paper and pencils. Patients carry wallet-size yellow cards that list their medications, their last vaccinations and their contact information; when they visit doctors, they present their info for updating. The cards are part of a recent overhaul that has focused on deceptively simple, and mostly affordable, ideas. "Sometimes, we get so focused on the latest technology," says director of quality Donna Truesdell, "that it's easy to lose sight of the basics."Those... -
They Call Her 'Lucy's Daughter'
It's been 3.2 million years since she died--and 32 since she was unearthed from the Ethiopian desert and christened after a Beatles song--but the prehuman fossil known as Lucy can still draw a crowd. Six hundred people showed up last Thursday at Georgia College & State University to meet her discoverer, Don Johanson, who was promoting his book "From Lucy to Language." From now on, though, Lucy will have to share the spotlight. On the same day, halfway around the world in Addis Ababa, a Johanson protégé named Zeresenay Alemseged was showing off another, newly revealed Australopithecus afarensis fossil--a toddler the media nicknamed "Lucy's baby." And in Georgia and elsewhere, the little girl captured the public imagination as her relative had three decades earlier. After his speech, Johanson says, "somebody asked me how it felt to be a grandfather."Technically, he shouldn't be passing out cigars. The new specimen--whose real name is Selam, or "peace," in Amharic--was born about 5... -
Med-School Makeover
Dr. A. Scott Pearson's patient had a problem--two problems, actually, and only one of them seemed fixable by a surgeon. The patient, an elderly man, needed to have a tumor removed from his colon. He also didn't want to have the operation. Pearson, a surgical oncologist at Vanderbilt University, could have sent his reluctant patient home. Instead, he and his residents asked to hear the backstory. "He was the sole provider for his wife, who was an invalid," Pearson says. "He couldn't put her care in jeopardy while he got better." A team of doctors and social workers arranged temporary care for the patient's wife, and soon he lay recovering in a hospital bed.Pearson may have exceptionally good instincts, but his technique is increasingly being taught in med schools. Known as narrative medicine, it's part of a new approach among physicians and medical educators to consider patients' personal stories as much as their test results in determining the course of treatment. Dr. Rita Charon of...


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I ordered this late on a Monday night, expecting to get it the following week (only ground shipping was offered for this item).
I got it that same Thursday. Item was exactly what I wanted, and exactly what was described.
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1 | Elijah, taking his leave of Elisha, with his mantle divides Jordan; |
9 | and, granting Elisha his request, is taken up by a fiery chariot into heaven. |
12 | Elisha, dividing Jordan with Elijah's mantle, is acknowledged his successor. |
16 | The young prophets, hardly obtaining leave to seek Elijah, cannot find him. |
19 | Elisha with salt heals the unwholesome waters. |
23 | Bears destroy the children that mocked Elisha. |
2 Kings 2:3 (King James Version)
And the sons of the prophets that were at Bethel came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the LORD will take away thy master from thy head to day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.


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June 10, 2013Cooking Channel features local pizzeria's unique pies
By Joshua Gordon
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Jennifer Stark, left, and Maureen McNamara, owners of Amici's Pizza & Living Room in Berkley, were featured on the Cooking Channel's "Pizza Cuz" after being selected by the network as one of the best pizzerias in the country. Unique recipes, like the roasted red pepper with feta cheese pizza shown here, have helped make the restaurant a popular dinner destination in Berkley.
BERKLEY — For a former music manager and a massage therapist, the pizza business didn't look like the perfect fit.
But Jennifer Stark and Maureen McNamara, friends since of the age of 14 when they met in high school in Royal Oak, bought Amici's Pizza & Living Room in Berkley from Stark's brother, George, eight years ago after Stark decided to step away from the music business.
When George said he was going to sell his business, Stark went to McNamara and, after she closed up shop as a massage therapist, the two pooled their money to buy the restaurant.
"In the back of my mind, I always knew I wanted to own a restaurant someday, and then it came to fruition," Stark, 50, said. "Maureen and I were customers at the time and we knew what it was, what a gem it was. Maureen had a marketing background and I thought we'd make a great partnership."
On June 3, Amici's Pizza & Living Room was featured on "Pizza Cuz," a show on the Cooking Channel on which two cousins go around the country and try the nation's best pizza. Stark and McNamara were featured in the episode titled "Girl Power," along with two other female-owned pizzerias.
While it took both ladies four decades to enter the restaurant business as owners, their hard work has paid off. Both women said being on a cooking show was "surreal," as being restaurant owners has become something they love and enjoy doing every day.
"We do more than pizza here," McNamara, 51, said. "We don't have any (televisions) and there is lots of talking in a small space, so people get to know each other. I have two kids who have both worked in the business and this place has become like our second home."
The two haven't changed much since they took over operations of the restaurant, but that is why they have been successful, Stark said. From the restaurant's Caribbean jerk chicken pizza with peanut butter-based sauce, which was featured on the episode, to the always-popular portabella mushroom pizza, Amici's has something for everyone.
"I think what we do here is unique and I think it is flavors and ingredients that people wouldn't necessarily think to do at home," Stark said. "In my mind, a mark of a good restaurant is a place you go to and you have a new experience you wouldn't be able to do in your own home.
"The same reason we bought the place is the same reason people are still here. We didn't break it."
Amici's was contacted by the Cooking Channel last November via email asking if they would be interested in being part of "Pizza Cuz." After sending in a one-minute video that showed off the workers and place of business, Stark and McNamara were selected to be part of the show, and the filming took place Feb. 5.
Stark said the preparation for the shoot was the hardest part, and someone could have eaten pizza off of the restaurant's floor because it was so clean. For McNamara, after the initial butterflies, the shooting went well and it was a once-in-a-lifetime experience to see the restaurant on television.
"We watch those shows, but you never think you are going to be on them, and then you see yourself," McNamara said. "We had family in different parts of the country watching it at the same time — it was great. And the pizza looked great; I wanted to eat it."
The two put out a notice on their Facebook page letting people know a show would be filming at the restaurant at 4 p.m. Feb. 5 and they were looking for people to fill up the restaurant. A lot of regulars and friends showed up for the shooting, including Berkley Mayor Phil O'Dwyer.
The episode featured the restaurant running as usual, as well as interviews with both Stark and McNamara, and it highlighted Stark preparing two pizzas. Stark said she works in the kitchen quite often, but there isn't a job in the whole restaurant the two owners don't know how to do.
"I'm in the kitchen and Maureen is out front more, but she helps with food and I help out here, so there is no defined jobs," she said. "You learn something new every day, even though we have been doing this for so long. There is not one job at Amici's we have not done. I've waited tables, I've bartended, I've made pizzas and I've done dishes and cleaned the bathroom."
Stark's brother started Amici's as a take-out restaurant in Royal Oak, but his move to Berkley paid dividends for Stark and McNamara. Being part of a small town has been a great experience and they were glad they could highlight Berkley in a positive manner.
"The people in Berkley are really supportive and they take pride in their businesses, and everyone is just a pleasure to talk to," Stark said. "Maureen and I both recognized what this place was and the room itself is a very warm, comforting place for a lot of people. We are just happy this is a special place for so many people."


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TOPIC: Join me as we take a trip aboard my Wayback Machine and visit one of Walt Disney World's scariest attractions, The ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter in Tomorrowland. This theater-in-the-round attraction lasted less than a decade, but made an impact due to its fear factor, celebrity cast and sophisticated plot line. We'll explore the history of the attraction and go through it scene by scene, then discuss its changes, tributes and ultimate demise.
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23 Responses to "Show # 363 – DSI: Disney Scene Investigation of ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter"
It was one of the best attractions ever. Couldn't wait to go in every time I was at WDW , then it was gone, replaced with Stitch. Basically the same, but no scare or excitement just disappointment!
This is my all time favorite theme park attraction. I was 11 years old when it opened and it was the attraction that showed me that a detailed exposition was possible in a theme park setting and that original, theme park specific IP attractions are always going to be more special to me than rides that come from pre-existing properties. I still wear my AE shirts when I'm in the Magic Kingdom and the attraction sign picture is the lock screen on my phone. There were great attractions built before and after this attraction, but none of them had the impact this one did.
1. The biggest mistake that Stitch made was that they dumbed down the storyline so badly. Instead of a semi-sketchy corporation wanting to show off its wares, we get a watered down "guard this prison until the prisoner wants to be nice". Stitch Escape also exists in a strange universe. Whereas Alien Encounter took place at the Tomorrowland Convention Center….with Stitch, we are supposed to be on a different planet entirely, and the cartoon aliens have never even heard of Earth before. It makes no sense.
Had they kept the X-S Tech storyline and simply replaced the giant bloodthirsty bug with Stitch, I think it would have been better received.2. There was also an original ending for Alien Encounter that involved Clench being recovered and beamed into the auditorium. Originally as guests were leaving the room, they would hear him pounding on the now-enclosed tube and screaming for someone to let him out. I don't know why exactly this was cut out (Birnbaum's travel guide wrote of it along the lines of "Clench is retrieved, but too late to save the presentation"), but the second ending had Spinlock and Feemus simply saying goodbye to the departing crowd.
LOVED this attraction! I was only able to experience it once, but I was blown away by how immersive it was. No other Disney attraction (for me) has been able to capture the feeling of being an active participant in such an experience. I knew a little of what to expect when I walked into it, but was still blown away by the whole show.
That being said, although I loved this ride, I completely understand those who were shocked that it showed up in the Magic Kingdom. It seems like this would have been much better off in Hollywood Studios. I know the chances of it being resurrected as next to impossible, but I would love to see Disney (or someone else) resurrect even this style of attraction.
Since the ride had two theaters, I wish Disney could have programmed one to run at Stitch during the day, and the other to run as Alien Encounter during other times. The pre-shows could just be swapped over to different videos and animatronic programming.
I loved this attraction and miss it. The replacement, while probably a better fit for the Magic Kingdom, is just a sad reminder of its former awesomeness. I would love to see this moved to the Studio and returned to the original.
I loved this attraction! I still remember that hot air feeling on my neck. That is when I flipped out and started yelling and screaming for my mommy LOL. I feel bad that my wife and son will not be able to experience that! I would love to see them bring this back. I have not been on Stitch (in protest) b/c I just don't think it would be the same! Knowing that they were going to try and do the Alien creature – now THAT would be a sight to see. Bring it back with that creature!
Alien Encounter scared me quite a bit, but I really loved it too. It contained my favorite WDW storyline and a couple of my favorite characters (Skippy and Dr. Feemus). I haven't ridden Stitch, but I've heard its soundtrack and I agree that it's a sad reminder of what used to be playing in those theaters. By the way, I love all the character analysis this ride inspires! That shows what an intelligent and creative story this was.
I loved this attraction for it's fear factor. I first rode it in 1999 and remember everything from the 'blood' dripping from the ceiling to the hiss behind your head as the monster came right up behind you and the sounds as it flew around the room.
Although it was a great attraction and it is missed by many, I do like Stitch's Great Escape purely for the fact that I got to take my young son in and there was nothing for him to be afraid of. He is a Stitch fan and he enjoyed the attraction which was great.
My first adult trip to WDW was in 2002, and I went to Alien Encounter on the advice of a friend. Not knowing what to expect, I was worried that it might be some form of spinning ride when I saw the circular room and the harnesses. Thankfully, of course, it didn't spin, but was probably about 3 times as scary for all of that. After screaming like a little girl and letting my heart rate return to normal, I made sure I went in again later in my trip.
I bought the action figure set, and to this day I have them on display on my office desk – skippy (pre- and post-burnt), SIR, and the alien. That was one of my two main souvenir purchases for the trip.
As for the alien, I too sympathize with its plight, and wonder if perhaps it was just confused by its entitlements on the Disney Dining Plan.
I totally miss Alien Encounter. It was so terrifying as a teenager bc I had no idea what was going to happen. In the first room, I remember thinking, "This is dumb." And then we got strapped in… Totally scary!
However, years later I wanted to take my husband to it bc I knew he'd love it. And it was gone!
You mentioned people missing "Mr. Toad's Wild Ride"… I rode that once when I was little. My dad so lovingly convinced me I was really driving and there was no track.
That was scarier than the alien and scarred me for real. Seriously. I didn't get my drivers license until I was 17 bc I was terrified of driving. :0 True story.
I absolutely loved this attraction, I saw it as a kid when I was twelve and I was absolutely TERRORfied. I had a lot of the merchandise that they sold for this attraction. I would do anything to experience this attraction again….BRING. IT. BACK.!!!!!!!
I really liked Alien Encounter and miss it being there. What made me like it so much was it's uniqueness and depth on so many levels, from the special effects to the story line and ethical questions that it raised. I appreciated the fact that it wasn't aimed at everyone as was meant for an older audience but with that said I can understand someone saying that: this was a park for children and adults to enjoy together.
I wouldn't have been as upset with them closing the attraction and replacing it because it never had the highest attendance numbers. What bothered me was the way in which it was replaced. I get the synergy model but why not a new unique attraction to showcase Stitch instead of swapping out Stitch for the alien and basically dumbing down and adding a cutesy element to the script? If I never saw Alien Encounter and just saw Stitch's Great Escape, the attraction would be fine but you can't un-see something especially when it was great. -
It was the best show in Tomorrowland. My wife and I really loved it. When the alien first appeared you heard someone behind you exclaim "That looks like my mother-in-law". It was only on the second time we saw it that we realised that it was part of the show. I don't believe that Clench wanted to come to see us because of remorse for skippy, but rather because he saw the big sales potential, and great showmen always want to maximise the impression they make.
Just to comment on another point you made in the show. My daughter is terrified of the Hollywood tower, not because of the drop, which she loves, but because of the scary story…
Love your show.
Alien Encounter was enjoyable ride, I always enjoyed it, but I experienced one of the worst times of my life on this same ride. I was solo in line behind a couple who had a young daughter (6-7 years old). I suggested to dad he ride before taking the daughter on the ride. They didn't listen and the girl had a very bad experience. Once the shoulder harnesses come down there's no getting out. Her cries of fear were horrible, real terror could be heard. I sat next to the dad, who tried to get out of his seat during the show, but was unable because of the restraint. I'lll never forget that fear coming from that young girl.
I really enjoyed this ride. Even as an 8 year old girl I enjoyed the thrill! I understand that it was not everyone's cup of tea, but I still feel like, with the proper warnings and now all of the travel books you can buy describing the attractions, that having one scary ride should not be out of the question. Perhaps it would be better in Hollywood studios. Either way, I miss it dearly and would love to seek it back someday in one of the parks.
This is my all-time favorite ride of Walt Disney World. I rode it for the first time with my family when I was 18 in 1995 and I was screaming like a little girl. I had to go on it again because I never did that on any ride anywhere. I also loved the themeing and the story. I have several pins of the ride and try to buy any Alien Encounter items I can find on eBay.
I miss this ride
I saw this attraction as a teenager and DO NOT miss it at all. I'm a bit of a wimp, so this ride was far beyond something I enjoyed. I didn't like the sense of being in the dark and not going on. That being said, I saw the warnings and chose to ignore them, so I asked to be scared!
I so agree that this was a technically advanced and intricate attraction. However, I went on it once and vowed never again – I am not a fan of stuff jumping out at you, the unknown, etc. I'm sort of glad it isn't there as I don't need to hem and haw about whether I should go on it or not when at MK (along with my kids). I do think Stitch is cool to kids, my daughter was apprehensive about going on stitch, I can just imagine what it would have been like for her on AE.
Frankly, I think it was out of place at disney world, would be better suited for that other park in Florida….
I went on this with my family back in 2000. I was 17 at the time and my sister was 11. I was scared but she was beyond scared! We had no idea going in, that it was that scary.
When I went back in 2004 with my then fiance, now husband, I really wanted him to ride it. But it was closed for Stitch.
I love Stitch and ride it every time we go. The only regret is that my husband did not get to ride it. I do think Alien Encounter was out of place in Tomorrowland.
I remember the 1st time my brother and I went on the ride. Not knowing what the ride was about, even at 19 it scared me. We liked it so much we made my sister and dad come on the ride too. With my brother and I knowing my sister was not much on scary things, we thought this would be fun. It was! She screamed the entire time. I loved the adrenalin rush from the ride and was sad the next time we went and it was no longer there. Still liked Stitch but wasn't the same scare!
Thank you so much for bring back some fun memories and teaching me some good in site on the ride!
PS- Maybe you know this. I have a photo of me with my G'pa on a ride in Disneyland coming out of what it looks like Monstro the whale. What ride would that be? -
I LOVED Alien Encounter! I rode when I was in my twenties and almost passed out! Went home and told other family members they HAD to rid it and they were scared out of their wits too! But I was older and love to be scared and surprised. AND I want it back! (This does not mean I Liked TOT)
I did find a DVD of Alien Encounter on the web and just listen to it (the video is pretty stat-icky). so I can go back once in a while. And I did buy a bubble pen of the Alien chasing Micky after riding the ride.
I have never experienced this attraction but I had thoroughly researched WDW before our first trip in 2006 but did not know that it had been closed three years prior. When I arrived and experienced Stitch's Great Escape, I was so sad I missed Alien Encounter. It sounded like a great attraction!
I loved this episode. Like all the other DSI's you've done over the years, they are extremely thorough and ripe with great nuggets of trivia.
This too was one of my favorite attractions, mostly because it came outside the box. It was created and imagined from start to finish with a complete story line and new characters both lovable and scary. I love what the Disney Parks create all the time, this one (and Timekeeper) however are great attractinos that were extra special to me.
For all your listeners and readers Lou, I wanted to just let everyone know if they want to relive those memories of this attraction, I released audio I recorded personally in a podcast back in 2006. Feel free to go give it a listen. I'm not Lou Mongello, but I find listening to the audio with the guests talking and reacting puts me back in the park better than downloaded source audio. http://goo.gl/hnQHsF
Thanks Lou for the DSI.


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TUCSON - Pima County Health Inspectors delivered a buffet of "Provisional" ratings.
Marisco's Chihuahua, at 2902 E. 22nd street, received seven critical violations. The inspector conducting the evaluation observed an employee mopping a floor wearing gloves, removing them, then blowing on his hands and putting on a new pair of gloves. The man then began preparing raw shrimp. Another employee was seen eating a plate of food at a prep table as food for customers was being prepared. With seven critical violations, Marisco's Chihuahua, was given a "Provisional" rating.
Denny's, at 3702 E. Irvington, received seven critical violations. A cook was observed cracking raw eggs and then preparing food for customers without changing gloves. Several dishes and utensils stored as clean had food debris on them. Food items in refrigeration units tested above the required maximum 41 degrees, with egg whites temped at 86 degrees, raw eggs at 51 degrees and turkey bacon tested at 49 degrees. With seven critical violations, Denny's, was given a "Provisional" rating.
Kung Fu Noodle, at 3122 N. Campbell, received nine critical violations. A large raw pot roast, in a plastic container, was left at room temperature to thaw overnight. Food must be thawed under refrigeration, running water or in a microwave. A cook was observed cracking eggs, touching his face and drinking from an open container, without washing his hands and changing gloves. Rice was stored in bowls that were soiled inside and out. Several kitchen items were encrusted with food debris. With nine critical violations, Kung Fu Noodle, was given a "Provisional" rating.
Two week's we told you about Jun Dynasty, at 2933 E.Grant, receiving a"Provisional" rating. The Pima County Health Department has confirmed that Jun Dynasty passed re-inspection.
Restaurants awarded excellent ratings include, Oregano's, at 100 W. Orange Grove, El Charro Café, at 6910 E. Sunrise Dr., Cattletown Steakhouse/Saloon, at 3141 E. Drexel Rd. And Sir Veza's Taco Garage, at 220 W. Wetmore.
To see the complete inspection reports on eating establishments we feature go to kvoa.com and click on "Kitchen Cops".
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LOVE this jacket! Super comfortable, very warm, and great color. I got it in turtledove, the white with green lining. The color in the picture looks very white but in actuality it's more of an eggshell or warm white. It's better than I expected and much better than just stark white.
There are also pockets everywhere which is awesome and the media pocket is hidden but not under the zipper. Meaning, you can access it without unzipping the whole jacket. It's pretty awesome.
I got the XL which turned out to be a bit bigger than I'd like but I'm definitely keeping it despite that. I can throw a sweatshirt or fleece underneath on super cold days.
One complaint/ issue... One of the pictures shows a head gaiter which didn't come with the jacket.
Overall very very pleased and now I can't wait for winter to get here!
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Heavy Rain Blamed for Dam's Partial Washout
NORA SPRINGS, Iowa (AP) -- Heavy rain has been blamed for the partial washout of the Nora Springs dam in northern Iowa.
Floyd County Emergency Management Coordinator Michael Morlan says the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers inspected the dam last week.
Morlan says the engineers didn't see any reason for immediate concern. Morlan says the engineers just said to watch it.
State officials will be inspecting the dam as well.
Morlan says it would take a lot more rain to take out the entire dam.
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DAVIDSON Greg Brannon repeatedly challenged House Speaker Thom Tillis conservative credentials Tuesday while Tillis saved his punches for Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan in the first debate of the Republican U.S. Senate primary.
The two Republicans dominated the debate with their back-and-forth as Mark Harris and Heather Grant sought to remain largely above the fray.
The debate before a live television audience on Time Warner Cable News and more than 400 people at Davidson College received national attention. It came two days before the start of early voting and two weeks before the May 6 primary. It was sponsored by TWCN, The Charlotte Observer and The (Raleigh) News & Observer.
It gave the highest profile yet to a race where no candidate has emerged as dominant and one largely defined by millions of dollars in outside super-PAC spending.
Tillis is favored by the Republican establishment, endorsed by Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, but polls show him short of the 40 percent necessary to avoid a July 15 runoff. The numbers suggest Brannon and Harris could be competing for second place and a runoff against Tillis.
Despite the need to differentiate themselves, the four candidates found more common ground. All oppose the Affordable Care Act. All oppose medical marijuana. All want to eliminate federal agencies. All believe Russia is the biggest foreign policy threat. And all believe climate change is not a fact.
The debate represented the first time all four leading candidates traded jousts and showcased the ideological battle within the race and the broader Republican Party. Brannon cited the Constitution at least 15 times in the first dozen questions, while Tillis advocated a practical conservatism that encouraged bipartisan cooperation.
Brannon used the first question on immigration to paint Tillis as weak and followed with two more attacks on Obamacare and Common Core education standards, a pattern that persisted through the hourlong debate.
This is a distinction between Thom and I, he said repeatedly.
An emerging issue in the race that didnt get mentioned: the 2012 departure of two top Tillis legislative staffers after they admitted affairs with lobbyists an issue Democrats and Republicans are using to question the speakers ethics. At the time Tillis said they resigned and gave them taxpayer-funded severance packages worth nearly $20,000.
Tillis, speaking to the issue after the debate for the first time since the attacks, said their resignation was forced, even though his campaign ad is now calling them firings.
Tillis tried to keep a tight focus on Hagan during and after the debate, playing down major differences between the candidates. There may be some difference in tone and style, he said after the debate. But were all good conservatives.
Hagan spokeswoman Sadie Weiner criticized all the candidates, but especially Tillis.
Tonights debate confirmed that Kay is the only candidate in this race who will put North Carolina families first, Weiner said. The Republican candidates made it clear, they all support the special interest agenda that has proven to be disastrous for middle class families under Thom Tillis watch in Raleigh.
Brannon questioned Tillis opposition to the federal health care law, noting legislation approved in the House in 2011 to advance a state-based exchange.
Again this is an area of distinction between Thom and me, he said. The state is sovereign over these issues. Thats why its important to know the checks and balances of our Constitution.
I agree with much of what Greg said, but hes patently wrong in terms of what we did in North Carolina, Tillis retorted.
Tillis, who called himself the leader of a conservative revolution in Raleigh, touted efforts by the Republican-led General Assembly to challenge the law known as Obamacare and to turn down federal money for the expansion of the states Medicaid program under the law.
The most terse exchange came on a question about whether convicted felons and the mentally ill should be able to own guns. Brannon said gun control is a state issue, where the federal government has no role.
Tillis suggested Brannon answered the question affirmatively and called his stance irresponsible.
I understand the concepts Mr. Brannon said and his words around the Second Amendment but folks this is being practical, this is being practical conservatives, Tillis said. Violent felons and people with mental health problems need to be rehabilitated. You cant put a gun in the hands of someone who represents a danger to themselves or society.
Brannon went back to the question later to say, I believe (at) the local-state level the sheriffs will protect the community, not the federal government.
He said after the debate he believes North Carolina officials should prohibit both populations from owning firearms but questioned Tillis support of what he called practical gun control.
The candidates all favored smaller government. Each named different federal departments they want to eliminate: Tillis said the Department of Education and Mark Harris said Education, Energy and Commerce, Grant said the Environmental Protection Agency and Greg Brannon named four departments, Health and Human Services, Education, the Federal Reserve and the Internal Revenue Service.
Harris and Grant said most policies should rest with states, not the federal government. Grant, a Wilkesboro nurse, said, Who better to know what your state needs than a state EPA and not a federal EPA?
Harris, pastor of Charlottes First Baptist Church, said, At the end of the day the role of government is simply to secure and protect the rights we have.
Clay Furches from Davidson said he came in to the debate with an open mind. And as he left the auditorium, he remained unsure. I was very impressed with Dr. Harris, he said. I was also impressed with Dr. Brannon.
The candidates united again Wednesday for a 30-minute debate in Raleigh hosted by WRAL-TV. A third and final debate hosted by UNC-TV is Monday.
News & Observer staff writer Katie Reilly contributed.
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GAO noted that: (1) VHA has made progress in implementing its year 2000 strategy for biomedical equipment, but it still does not know how pervasive the problem is; (2) this is because it has not received compliance and cost information from many of the manufacturers on its list suppliers, as well as from nearly 100 additional manufacturers no longer in business; (3) like VHA, FDA has sent letters to biomedical equipment manufacturers, requesting information on products affected by the year 2000 problem; (4) the response rate to FDA has been disappointing; (5) failure to obtain timely compliance information from the manufacturers increases the risk to health care providers and biomedical equipment users that such equipment may not operate properly after the turn of the century; and (6) it is critical that such information be obtained and publicized; while many reported noncompliant equipment items do not present a risk to patient safety, some could present such risks.
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Powerful Affirmation for Suicidal Thoughts
Suicide attempt survivor Andy Grant shares a powerful affirmation for those struggling with suicidal thoughts.
I live in the totality of possibilities. There is always another way. I am safe.
Be good to yourself,
Be Glad Others Don't Understand
I'm seeing so many people caught up in arguing and fighting over labels and blame in the aftermath of Robin William's death that I felt compelled to share a lesson I've learned in my life.
First off, in case you don't know; I am a suicide attempt survivor. Actually, I'm a survivor of multiple suicide attempts. I've been in and out of more mental hospitals than I'd ever want to admit to. I used to try to answer questions about why, and how did it feel. Others would struggle to comprehend my answers. Many times I would be angered when I heard people call suicide a cowardly or selfish decision. Now, I'm glad when others don't understand. Because it means they've never felt as emotionally low as I have. There is no need to convince them of anything. I simply ask them to appreciate that suicide makes no sense to them. I let them know I'm envious that they can't grasp these dark sensations.
If you've never felt so bad that you seriously contemplated ending your life or took actions to do so, you won't know how it feels. There aren't enough words, interviews, or media sound bites to get that horrid feeling across to someone who hasn't experienced it themselves.
Good. I want to live in a world where fewer people know those dark feelings and impulses. But we can all allow others to feel however they do without falling to name calling, labeling and blaming. Offer some compassion to those struggling with issues that you are not familiar with.
Suicide and depression isn't a character defect or something someone just decides to turn off/on when they feel like it.
It is senseless, not selfish.
It is hopeless, not cowardly.
Sometimes, it just is.
When I was suicidal I thought friends and family would be better off without me. Sure, I knew there would be some initial pain, shock and grief, but I believed that over time everyone would be in a better place without gloomy old depressed me around. It did not feel selfish. I had a distorted perception that I was helping others by vanishing.
If you can't fathom, feel, or even empathize with depression, anxiety or any mental illness - it's OK. Be glad. Celebrate that.
But please don't argue with or put down people doing their best to live with it, or those that can't manage to live with it.
What is the point of arguing over something you know nothing about?
When I was 18 years old, I was certain that anyone who said they were happy was lying. I believed that anyone who took an honest look at the world and at their lives would see that life sucked. Often times I tried to convince people that suicide was the only logical thing to do. I was wrong. I am thrilled to have been so wrong.
Nobody's beliefs change by being badgered and argued with. Our perceptions change over time, based on our experiences, based on what works and doesn't work for us. We can all choose new beliefs, but arguing with someone over their beliefs or yours is a fool's game.
What is more important to you, to be right or to be happy?
You can disagree with me. You can mock this post.
I don't care if anyone thinks I'm right, I'd rather be happy.
To all my fellow attempt survivors, to everyone ever labeled with a mental illness, I invite you to not try to explain the unexplainable. Do not attempt to convince, justify, or defend actions rooted in pain and hopelessness. That merely drains your time and energy. Instead, be glad that someone else doesn't know your pain. I understand that this isn't easy, but give it a try.
If you hear someone call Robin Williams a coward, or if you read an article or post saying that anyone who has killed themselves or tried is selfish, don't try and prove your views are right or change theirs. I encourage you to say to yourself; "They've never been there, they don't get it. Good for them." And move on.
Be good to yourself.
With love and respect,
Andy Grant
Need help? In the U.S., call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.
Goodbye, Robin Williams
As a suicide attempt survivor, I share my feelings about the passing of Robin Williams. Otherwise known as "Over Sharing With Andy."
It is horribly ironic that one of Robin's most amazing films, and not a comedy at all, is "What Dreams May Come" which has a plot centered on the suicide of a spouse and a journey into the afterlife. It is quite a beautiful and striking film.
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Some days just suck…
Today I learned that an old friend had been identified as the body found in a pond in Deerfield, Illinois yesterday. We had last talked in February. He contacted me because he was very depressed and had been experiencing suicidal thoughts. We talked for a long time. He was unemployed and about to lose his home. We talked about the reality of his situation as well as the self-defeating assumptions he was making about it.
We had met in 2001 when he became my manager at work. We quickly became friends outside of work too. He even had roles in a two short films I made. A couple of years later, he looked out for me at a time when I was extremely depressed. I was often bawling in my office cubicle. He would get me out of the office, take walks with me, make plans to get together on weekends, visit me at home... he was a great and caring friend and certainly one of the coolest bosses anyone could ever hope to have.
For the last month, I kept having the urge to reach out to him. I wanted to see how he was doing, but I kept putting it off. I'm disappointed in him. I'm also disappointed in me. I ignored my intuition. That is why I'm disappointed in me. I didn't want him to feel like I was checking up on him and decided to let him reach out to me if he wanted to talk about anything. He didn't. He knew that he could, but he didn't. That is why I'm disappointed in him.
For anyone like me that walks a path that has them meeting depressed and suicidal people, you know you can't "save" everyone. I knew when I decided to be open about my experiences with depression and suicide attempts that I'd meet people who would never embrace life. But I never thought it would be someone who had helped me so much when I was so low. I feel that I have failed horribly in returning that favor.
Don't wait. Don't delay. Don't take ANYONE in your life for granted. When somebody crosses your mind, get in touch with them. Better to find it was nothing than to learn you ignored some silent cry for help.
God bless you, Brian.
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-- Andy Grant, January 5, 2014
On this January morning I was looking out my home office window and had one of those amazing little moments. One of those moments of insight and introspection that may mean nothing to anyone else, but which brought tears to my eyes.
I looked out my window seeing the grey, gloomy sky, then gazing higher above, almost straight up, I saw clear blue sky. Such a gorgeous expanse of limitless blue with white puffy clouds zooming by. The clouds were moving so fast it looked like a time lapse film that compressed the cloud movements of an entire day down to seconds. I looked back at the horizon - the grey clouds sitting there motionless.
In the peripheral vision of my right eye, I could see dark, ominous trees. I turned to them to see a field of leafless, dark shapes with translucent rays of light poking though, giving the branches ominous highlights. It was rather eerie and menacing, a bit of a traditional Halloween scene.
I realized all of this was happening at the same time. All of these scenes, these views, were real; and my mood, my emotions, my outlook, changed depending on which one I focused. The overall scope was too grand for me to see all three aspects at the same time. I had to choose what I wanted to see; what I wanted to focus on. I got to choose what I wanted to experience.
The sky is always blue. It is the clouds that are sometimes grey. The sun is always shining, we just don't always see it.
Life is always good, we just aren't always aware of it. Sometimes we are deceived by the filters, the clouds, the temporarily leafless, scary trees. It is all good.
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Air Force 2nd Lt. John T. Distelhorst was presented the 2003 Community Service Award by the Cocoa Beach Area Chamber of Commerce.
Distelhorst is a project officer assigned to the Air Force Technical Applications Center at Patrick Air Force Base, Cocoa Beach, Fla. The second lieutenant has one year of military service.
He is the son of Thomas E. and stepson of Dana J. Distelhorst of O'Fallon, Ill.
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