Wonderful Women Of The World: TedxWomen Part 3 – ReBirth
Posted by Michelle Moquin on December 17th, 2011
Good morning!
More Wonderful Women Of The World +* - I HOPE that you have been enjoying these as they are fantastic. I urge you to take the time, watch these women (and men) , and honor their achievements. This is part 3 of the 4 part series.Correction: Last Wednesday my Head title for the 3rd part I named “Recovery” when it was supposed to be titled “Relationships” - I don’t know where I picked that up as it is in no part of the series. Oops – my bad.)
Again, click on each speakers name to watch the video.
ReBirth
How extended health, longevity, and an untapped potential is redefining women in their third act
Hosted by Jane Fonda, Actress, Author, Producer, Activist, and Exercise Guru
(Host: ReBirth Session) Jane Fonda is an actress, author, producer, activist, and exercise guru. Outspoken and committed, she supports environmental issues, peace, and female empowerment. She founded the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention, and established the Jane Fonda Center for Adolescent Reproductive Health at the Emory School of Medicine. She cofounded the Women’s Media Center, and sits on the board of V-Day: Until The Violence Stops, a global effort to stop violence against women and girls. She is a former Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund.
Jane’s remarkable screen and stage career includes two Best Actress Oscars (Klute and Coming Home), an Emmy (The Dollmaker), a Tony Award nomination (33 Variations) and an Honorary Palme d’Or from the Cannes Film Festival—she is one of only three people to receive this honor. Her producer credits include Nine to Five and On Golden Pond. Off stage, she revolutionized the fitness industry in the 1980s with Jane Fonda’s Workout—the all time top-grossing home video. Jane has once again turned her attention to fitness with the release of a DVD set in 2010, with more releases scheduled for 2011, all under her Prime Time brand, aimed at the boomer generation. She has written a best-selling memoir, My Life So Far, and Prime Time, a comprehensive guide to living life to the fullest, particularly for boomers. In 2010, she made two new films: a French comedy, Et Si On Vivait Tous Ensemble, and Peace, Love & Misunderstanding. Jane is an avid reader, writer, hiker, fly fisherwoman, and meditator.
Iyeoka Ivie Okoawo is a Nigerian-American poet and musician. (Performance)
Iyeoka (ee-yo-kah) Ivie Okoawo is a first generation Nigerian-American award-winning poet, recording artist, and TED fellow. As a singer, drummer, activist, and educator, she channels her cultural and ancestral influences to access the power of the moment and deliver an authentic and inspiring message of healing.
In 2010, Iyeoka released her third studio album, SAY YES, whose single “The Yellow Brick Road Song” is the theme song for the USA Network series Fairly Legal.
Iyeoka is currently promoting her latest initiative, Lyrics For Literacy, a project that creates a bridge of awareness and action to encourage the preservation of the Esan language, an endangered native dialect of Edo State, Nigeria, through storytelling, proverbs, and music.
Laura Carstensen is a member of the Psychology Department at Stanford University.
Dr. Carstensen is Professor of Psychology and the Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Professor in Public Policy at Stanford University, where she is the founding director of the Stanford Center on Longevity, which explores innovative ways to solve the problems of people over 50 and improve the well-being of people of all ages. She is best known in academia for socioemotional selectivity theory, a life-span theory of motivation, and has co-authored and published more than 125 articles on life-span development. Her research has been supported by the National Institute on Aging for more than 20 years. In 2009, she authored A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security—an updated edition will be released in 2011.
Dr. Carstensen is a fellow in the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association and the Gerontological Society of America; has chaired two studies for the National Academy of Sciences, resulting in The Aging Mind and When I’m 64; and is a member of the MacArthur Foundation’s Research Network on an Aging Society. She has won numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Distinguished Career Award from the Gerontological Society of America. She received her BS from the University of Rochester and PhD in clinical psychology from West Virginia University.
Michelle Warren is the founder and medical director of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women’s Health since 1997.
Dr Warren is the founder in 1997 and Medical Director of the Center for Menopause, Hormonal Disorders and Women’s Health at Columbia University Medical Center. She is professor of obstetrics and gynecology and medicine. A pioneer in the effects of eating disorders and athletics on the menstrual cycle, Dr. Warren was the first to identify skeletal problems, including scoliosis and stress fractures that occur in young women as a result of menstrual irregularities.
Over a lifetime of practice focusing on women’s health, she has written numerous articles and textbook chapters and lectures and teaches extensively on menopause, oral contraceptives, anorexia nervosa, menstrual irregularities, amenorrhea in athletes, and osteoporosis. She has published a book on sports and hormones. She conducts clinical trials and medical research in the field of eating disorders, hypothalamic amenorrhea, osteoporosis, and menopause and has been awarded multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health. She has published over 200 articles and book chapters in her field. She has been named best doctor by NY Magazine and named best doctor in America since 2004 and holds an endowed professorship in Women’s Health at Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Warren earned her medical degree from Cornell University Medical College. She is board-certified in internal medicine and in a subspecialty in endocrinology and has trained in reproductive endocrinology.
*Mehmet Oz is the host of the Emmy Award–winning The Dr. Oz Show and a renowned cardiac surgeon.
Dr. Oz, host of the Emmy Award–winning The Dr. Oz Show, is a renowned cardiac surgeon, vice chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University, and director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital. He has authored seven New York Times best sellers including, YOU: The Owner’s Manual; his most recent book,YOU: Stress Less, was released in 2011. He has a column in TIME, AARP,Esquire, and O, The Oprah Magazine, and is author of over 400 publications, book chapters, and medical books. He was the featured health expert on The Oprah Winfrey Show, chief medical consultant to Discovery Communications, and has appeared on many television shows.
Suzanne Braun Levine is a writer, editor, and nationally recognized authority on women and family issues and media.
Suzanne Braun Levine is a nationally recognized authority on women and family issues and media. She was the first editor of Ms. magazine and the only woman to edit the Columbia Journalism Review. She produced the Peabody Award-winning documentary She’s Nobody’s Baby: American Women in the Twentieth Century. Levine writes and blogs regularly on Feisty Side of Fifty,The Transition Network, The Third Age, Vibrant Nation, SheWrites and other popular sites for women, and is a contributing editor to More magazine. She is on the Board of Civic Ventures, a nonprofit think tank on boomers, work and social purpose. She is the author of Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Women in Second Adulthood and Fifty Is the New Fifty: Ten Life Lessons for Women in Second Adulthood. How We Love Now: Sex and Intimacy in Second Adulthood,her newest book will be published by Viking January 2, 2012. A lecturer and advisor to several women’s organizations dealing with midlife issues, she has appeared on Oprah, Charlie Rose, Today, NPR and numerous other television and radio programs. Her previous books include Father Courage: What Happens When Men Put Family First (Harcourt, 2000) and an oral history of Bella Abzug (with Mary Thom) published by Farrar Straus & Giroux in 2007.
http://www.suzannebraunlevine.com/
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. Interviewed by Salamishah Tillet.
Gloria Steinem is a writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist. She travels in this and other countries as an organizer and lecturer and is a frequent media spokeswoman on issues of equality. She is particularly interested in the shared origins of sex and race caste systems, gender roles, and child abuse as roots of violence, nonviolent conflict resolution, the cultures of indigenous peoples, and organizing across boundaries for peace and justice. She now lives in New York City, and is currently at work on Road to the Heart: America As if Everyone Mattered, a book about her more than thirty years on the road as a feminist organizer.
Dr. Salamishah Tillet is one of the rising feminist activists and academics of her generation. In 2003, Salamishah and her sister, Scheherazade Tillet, cofounded A Long Walk Home, Inc., a 501 (c) nonprofit that uses art therapy and the visual and performing arts to end violence against girls and women. She is the writer of Story of a Rape Survivor (SOARS), an award-winning multimedia performance that tells her own story of reclaiming her body, sexuality, and self-esteem after being sexually assaulted in college. She cocreated The Girl/Friends Leadership Institute, an art-based, feminist boot camp for African-American adolescent girls who have been impacted by violence in Chicago. She was an associate producer for Aishah Shahidah Simmons’s groundbreaking documentary, NO!, A Rape Documentary and is in the Cambridge Documentary’s award winning film, Rape Is… In 2006, Ebony Magazine named her one of America’s top 30 Black leaders under 30 years old. In 2010, Salamishah and Scheherazade were finalists for Glamour Magazine’s “Women of the Year” award for their work to end violence against girls and women.
Salamishah has appeared on CNN and NPR and written for The Nation on issues of race, gender, and popular culture and is a regular contributor for theWashington Post magazine, The Root. Her book, Sites of Slavery: Citizenship, Racial Democracy, and the Post-Civil Rights Imagination examines how contemporary African-American artists represent slavery to challenge present-day racial inequality and model a more democratic American future. She is currently working on a book on the black feminist icon, Nina Simone. She earned her Ph.D. in the History of American Civilization from and A.M. in English and American Literature from Harvard University. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Gender, Sexuality, and Women Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist
Mary Catherine Bateson is a writer and cultural anthropologist. She taught at Harvard, Amherst College, George Mason University, Northeastern University and Spelman College. She has lived in the Philippines and Iran. Bateson’s original research interest was in the Middle East. More recently she has been interested in how women and men work out distinctive ways of adapting to culture change, learning from those around them and improvising new ways of being. This has led her to work with life histories and other types of first person narratives, literary and ethnographic, focusing on learning in contexts of cultural difference.
She has written and coauthored many books and articles, lectures globally, and was president of the Institute for Intercultural Studies in New York City from 1979 to 2009. Her books include early academic work on Arabic linguistics; a memoir of her anthropologist parents Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, With a Daughter’s Eye; Composing a Life; Peripheral Visions: Learning Along the Way; and Full Circles, Overlapping Lives: Culture and Generation in Transition. Her more recent book, Willing to Learn: Passages of Personal Discovery, brings together essays and occasional pieces, written over the course of her career and previously unpublished or unknown. It explores many topics, including contemporary United States and issues of life stages and gender; and belief systems, change, and conflict between cultures, especially in the Middle East. Her latest book, Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom (2010), describes a new life stage, Adulthood II, before old age, which is characterized by health, energy, continued learning and spiritual development that builds on years of diverse experience.
She lives in New Hampshire, where she writes, and is a visiting scholar at Boston College’s Center on Aging and Work.
http://www.marycatherinebateson.com
Girl Up is an innovative campaign of the United Nations Foundation which gives American girls the opportunity to become global leaders and channel their energy and compassion to raise awareness and funds for United Nations programs that help some of the world’s hardest-to-reach adolescent girls. Project Girl Performance Collective performs on behalf of Girl Up. (Performance) Project Girl (projectgirlperformancecollective.org) is a performance collective of American girls using their talents and voices to shine light on critical global challenge women and girls face worldwide.
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December 17th, 2011 at 9:21 am
Delicious Garlic Sticks, Pretzels, More
(No One Will Guess You Used Store-Bought Dough)
Everyone loves a treat fresh from the oven. And these are quick to make because they use refrigerated dough (the kind in a cardboard can).
MINI WRAPPED BRIE
1 8-ounce can crescent rolls
1 small package Brie or Camembert cheese (about 7 ounces)
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Unroll the dough, and separate it into four rectangles. Press perforations to seal the dough.
Press or roll out the sides of the rectangles to make six-inch squares. Cut each square in half, then in half again to make 16 three-inch squares.
Cut the Brie into 16 pieces of roughly one square inch each and about half-inch thick (include rind). Place one square of Brie in the middle of each square of dough.
Bring the four corners of each square together on top of the Brie. Twist them together. Pinch the corners of the dough to make sure that the Brie is completely sealed in the square.
Place on an ungreased baking sheet, and bake 10 to 12 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Makes 16 mini wrapped Brie.
GARLIC STICKS
1 Tablespoon butter, softened
2 large garlic cloves, crushed
½ teaspoon salt
¼ teaspoon freshly ground
black pepper
1 8-ounce can crescent rolls
Preheat the oven to 375°F. Mix the butter, garlic, salt and pepper together to form a smooth spread. Unroll the dough, and separate it into four rectangles, about 3¾ inches by five inches each.
Press perforations to seal them. Spread each rectangle with the butter mixture. Cut each rectangle in half lengthwise.
Bring the long sides together, and pinch to close. Twist and stretch to form a six-inch strip. Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Makes eight garlic sticks.
PIZZA PRETZELS
1 Tablespoon olive oil
1 package thin pizza crust
32 thin pepperoni slices
¼ cup shredded mozzarella cheese
4 Tablespoons pizza sauce
2 teaspoons dried oregano
1 egg, lightly beaten
½ Tablespoon coarse sea salt
Preheat the oven to 425°F. Grease a baking sheet with the olive oil. Unroll pizza crust dough on a floured surface. It will be in the shape of a rectangle.
Cut the dough lengthwise into four strips about 2½-inches wide. Place the pepperoni slices evenly over the strips (eight slices for each strip), leaving about a half-inch space at each end. Sprinkle mozzarella cheese over the slices.
Spread pizza sauce over the cheese, and sprinkle with oregano. Bring the sides of each dough strip together, and pinch firmly to close, working along the length of the strip until it is completely closed over the filling.
You may need to stretch the dough. With your hands, roll each strip into a tubular shape that is 18 inches long.
To form each tube into a pretzel shape: First form each tube into a U shape. Place the end of one tube on the bottom of the U. Cross the other end of the tube over the first one, and attach to the bottom of the U.
Use a spatula to place the pretzel on the baking sheet. Brush the top of the pretzel with beaten egg, and sprinkle with salt.
Bake 12 to 15 minutes or until the pretzels are golden brown. Serve warm. Makes four pretzels.
Linda Gassenheimer is an award-winning author of several cookbooks, most recently, Fast and Flavorful: Great Diabetes Meals from Market to Table (American Diabetes Association).
She writes the syndicated newspaper column “Dinner in Minutes.” http://www.DinnerInMinutes.com
December 17th, 2011 at 9:37 am
Michelle, I’m not in America but yesterday was a lot of scary reading about what is happening to my favorite country to vacation in.
I have been coming to your country since I was 7. My parents used to tell me that this is the only country you can go to and the fact that we are white means we get better treatment than the non white citizens of the country.
My father used to laugh when my mother told friends after we returned that story as a reason she loved going to America. Then he would say that’s not the reason the real reason is she likes lording it over their minorities.
Everyone would laugh and that would be that.
I am 43 now and it is not so funny. Especially when I read that when black soldiers returned from fighting for their country in WWI they were greeted by a group, the KKK, formed by the white citizens to terrorize the black ones to keep them from asking to share equally in America’s opportunities.
I bring my children to America, but I tell them that they are to respect all of the hosts of my favorite country to visit.
I wish to take this opportunity to apologize to all America’s minorities for any disrespect that my parents my have brought upon them or theirs.
Humbly
Jorge
December 17th, 2011 at 9:38 am
Michelle, I couldn’t get in yesterday. I wanted to say I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
December 17th, 2011 at 9:40 am
Michelle, my take is for the republicans regulations just seem fine and dandy when they significantly benefit the largest corporate donors to their election campaigns.
December 17th, 2011 at 9:44 am
Chris, let’s take a tally here.
1. The government can indefinitely imprison American citizens without trials on “suspected” charges of terrorism.
2. Scott Walker’s passing a bill in Wisconsin, in effect this Friday, that mandates protesters have to PAY for the right to protest.
3. The police can just arrest and imprison you in the streets of Arizona if you’re not carrying documentation to prove your legal residence.
4. Innocent protesters elsewhere are peppersprayed and beaten with batons for walking in the streets.
5. The government may soon have the authority to shut down any website on the Internet on suspected charges of piracy.
This is an Orwellian nightmare, and our country’s busy talking about the Kardashians.
Yeah, this may have been a bad week to stop sniffing glue.
Carmita
December 17th, 2011 at 10:01 am
Hafa Adai Michelle:
Thanks so much for continuing to remind us of the value of women. Sometimes I come here to find something to read to feel good about.
Articles like this are sometimes all we women have to encourage us to persevere.
I live on an island where the men can gather to exclaim how they are not respected as Chamorros by the whites in America.
They expect us, the females, to support them 100%. Yet, we get the same treatment from them they accuse white men of.
They disrespect us and try to regulate our bodies and lives as if they were our lords.
This link – http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19397:video-respicio-defends-his-handling-of-abortion-bills&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156
shows two “men” discussing something that should be an personal decision of a woman. But men never miss an opportunity to claim a right to interfere in the lives of women.
Anna
December 17th, 2011 at 10:12 am
I hope you still check in regularly. I want you to know that I miss our intimate tête à tetes.
My computer caught a virus and I’m missing you more than I care to admit.
December 17th, 2011 at 10:21 am
Hafa Adai;
Gracious, Anna, will men ever stop? When I read this –
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In the absence of Committee Chair Senator Rory Respicio, Vice-Chair Senator Judi Guthertz presided over the meeting during which members voted, without objection, to include Senator Rodriguez’s Bill 323, the Parental Consent for Abortion Bill, on the agenda.
Rodriguez said “This piece of legislation would require minors who would seek an abortion to first get the consent from a parent.
And we have alternatives in the legislation that would provide these alternatives to the minor so the use of this legislation is to ensure that minors have a parent or adult who are overseeing them and are aware before they undergo this very critical and dangerous procedure.”
————————- I said here we go again. First some man tries to tell us what is dangerous for our bodies, then he passes a law to make us accept his solution for the “danger.”
Lea
December 17th, 2011 at 10:28 am
11/7t3(#9 yesterday):
The U/23m9 was lost in 2002. We have had a long time to reverse engineer the technology.
A vrofluent is a device that uses the same technology as our new energy-saving light bulbs and cell phones and computers over skype and ichat.
If humans have discovered how to use this technology humans will soon have a new means of communicating via our light bulbs we will certainly use it.
Humans will be able to listen to your communications so perhaps you can use a different technology to remain silent.
HOWIE
December 17th, 2011 at 10:35 am
Michelle, the army is holding my little brother and two sisters hostage because my father belongs to a protest group. They say if he does not surrender they will be killed.
I fear they will be killed along with my father if he does surrender.
We live in Daraa. Can Madaline help us?
Atifa
December 17th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Listen to Howie and avoid any frequency that compromises light reception when in delivery mode.
December 17th, 2011 at 11:15 am
Hafa adai
This is late but it is still good.
Hafa adai family and friends,
I’m glad to announce the launching of Guam’s newest media outletlate tonight (Guam time).
http://www.guamsportsnetwork.com is Guam’s latest and only media website totally dedicated to sports on Guam.
Click on, take a look and support local sports!
Whether you’re on Guam or living somewhere else, we hope our coverage makes you feel close to Guam.
Click and enjoy,
patrick
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Give it some play guys.
Peter
December 17th, 2011 at 11:25 am
WHY WOMEN MAY BE SKIPPING MAMMOGRAMS
It certainly made sense that prescriptions for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) pills dropped in 2002 following the discovery that being on HRT elevated a woman’s risk for breast cancer.
But now we’re seeing an unintended and, in my view, dangerous consequence of that research. In 2005, data for US women showed — for the first time ever — a drop in the number of mammograms, the key screening tool used to detect breast cancer.
Why the sudden dip? A study from the National Cancer Institute that was published today in the December 15, 2011 issue of Cancer found that the decreased use of HRT after 2002 may have had something to do with it.
One key finding from the study was that, among women between the ages of 50 and 64, there was an association between stopping HRT and not getting mammograms.
WHAT THE STUDY FOUND
Researchers looked at data on HRT use and mammography use from two National Health Interview Surveys of a total of about 14,500 women —
one was conducted in 2000, when HRT was still widely recommended, and the other was conducted in 2005, after HRT use had been severely curtailed.
They looked at self-reported surveys in both years from statistically similar groups of women.
One group they studied was women who were between the ages of 50 and 64, since women over 50 were more likely to be menopausal — and therefore were more likely to both get mammograms and use HRT in those years.
What they found: In 2000, 41% of women in that age range used HRT and in 2005, just 16% of women in that age range used HRT.
Also in 2000, 78% of women in that age range said that they had gotten a mammogram in the past two years, but in 2005, only 73% of women in that age range said that they had gotten a mammogram in the past two years.
When analyzing those two drops more closely, the researchers figured out that they were, in fact, associated — meaning that women who stopped taking HRT between 2000 and 2005 were less likely to get mammograms in 2005.
Interested to know more about why quitting HRT might have caused women to quit getting screened for such a life-threatening disease,
I called Matthew Morgan, MD, who specializes in women’s imaging and is an assistant clinical professor in the department of radiology at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, in Salt Lake City.
WHY STOP NOW?
Since women typically need to see their doctors to renew their HRT prescriptions — and since doctors often take those in-person opportunities to encourage patients to order mammograms –
the researchers speculated that the less women use HRT, the less often they’re likely to see their doctors, and, therefore, the less likely they’re going to be reminded about getting mammograms.
Dr. Morgan agreed with this theory. “Patients who interact with the medical system on a regular basis tend to be more compliant and follow medical recommendations, like getting mammograms,” he said.
There isn’t agreement from major medical groups on the best age to start getting mammograms (40 or 50?) and how often to get them (every year or every two years?),
so Dr. Morgan said that it’s important to talk to your doctor about your personal risk factors and see what’s best for you.
But whenever your doctor advises you to start getting mammograms, it’s important not to stop — even if you have stopped using HRT, added Dr. Morgan.
“Remember, the number-one risk factor for breast cancer is age, so the older you get, the more critical screenings become,” he said.
Source(s):
Matthew B. Morgan, MD, specializes in women’s imaging and is an assistant clinical professor in the department of radiology at the Huntsman Cancer Institute, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.
December 17th, 2011 at 11:28 am
If we are making personals today, I think it would be a good Idea for Michelle to declare SATURDAYS + Personals DAY.
That way everyone who misses a loved one can do it anonymously if they wish because the loved one or other will check in to see it.
What do you Say Michelle? Can we get Saturdays declared as PERSONALS DAY?
JJ
December 17th, 2011 at 11:29 am
Oops! forgot my personal.
Nigger Please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
December 17th, 2011 at 11:33 am
I’m sorry I didn’t mean to lie to you. I was afraid that you would not forgive my mistake.
It was a mistake. I am so sorry I hurt you. Please call. or blog I will check all day and forever.
I Love you so much.
Xara
December 17th, 2011 at 11:37 am
JJ, girl! I am so going to tell him to check out the blog. He knows that BS did’t go over with you.
I knew the minute he walked in with that white girl you were outta there.
He said she was just a friend who asked for a ride to the gig. But like you said she was awful familiar for that. We your pack girl so you know we got your back.
But he is the lead singer and he wants back in. So whatever, but you know?
Tasha
December 17th, 2011 at 11:40 am
You said if I ever wanted to come to America to call. I did no answer. This is my last try. I have caught your post a few times so I hope you remember me enough to finish this one way or the other.
Kgo
December 17th, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Michelle this is horrible! What could have driven this woman to do this?
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EMINGTON, Ill. — A neighbor said Saturday she saw an Illinois woman shoot at her 10-month-old baby before apparently killing herself.
Authorities have said five people, including two children and a baby, were killed in a murder-suicide, but they haven’t identified the shooter.
The bodies were found Friday in Emington, a small farming community about 80 miles southwest of Chicago.
Neighbor Annelise Fiedler told The Associated Press that she heard a round of shots Friday afternoon and ran outside to her backyard.
She saw 30-year-old Sara McMeen in the next yard over hovering over her baby as if she’d dropped her. Fiedler asked McMeen if everything was alright, and “she looked at me and said, `No, everything is not alright.”
McMeen fired a shot at the infant, “and then I just ran,” said Fiedler, a town trustee. Fiedler said she didn’t see or hear what happened after that, and she didn’t see any of the other victims.
Along with McMeen, Livingston County coroner Michael Burke identified them as 29-year-old Daniel Warren, 8-year-old Skyler Lemke, 7-year-old Ian Lemke and 10-month-old Maggie Warren.
Livingston County Sheriff Martin Meredith said all the children belonged to Sara McMeen, and he described Daniel Warren as her live-in boyfriend.
McMeen’s mother, Cynthia McMeen, of nearby Dwight, issued a statement on behalf of her family asking for prayers and privacy.
“The family is drawing together during this time, relying on God, and grieving,” it said. “They would ask for your prayers for all the families involved and would like their privacy to be honored.”
Fiedler said she heard a man and woman fighting inside the home several times over the past few months. She said the couple kept “very much to themselves.”
Neighbor Dave Melton said he returned home after receiving a frantic call from his wife, who yelled into the phone, “the kids are dead.”
From his house, he could see Ian Lemke’s body drooped over the stairs leading up to the home, and the bodies of Sara McMeen and the older daughter about 10 feet away in the backyard.
“I stood here for a while like, this ain’t happening,” Melton said.
Meredith said a semiautomatic pistol was recovered at the scene. The sheriff, a father in his first year in office, called the situation “very gut-wrenching.”
Neighbors have said the family moved to Emington recently. They were living in a rented house, and a woman who said her brother-in-law owned it declined, when contacted by telephone, to comment until she talked to him.
Meredith said the two older children attended school in nearby Saunemin, where Skyler was in second grade and Ian was in first grade.
The children were well-known in the neighborhood, but the adults were not.
Beth Barcikowski, who lives across the street, said her own children used to play with the Lemkes and Skyler would come to their home before and after getting on the school bus.
She’s haunted by the idea that the little girl was shot just as she got home from school.
“Just wishing she would’ve come here first,” Barcikowski said.
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Associated Press writer Karen Hawkins contributed to this report.
December 17th, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Kgo, I swear this must be faith! I JJ’s post and I thought. Hey I lost Kgo’s number and I can reach her via mail. So I’m going to blog and see if she will answer.
I have your ticket. My cell number is still the same but the three digit Prefix is now (650) not (281). I moved to California. It would be too difficult to be together in Huston. But I passed the Cal Bar and am gainfully employed here.
I love you and I miss you. Call we can get married in America and maybe in California. Things are really changing here.
Please – Don’t hesitate come right away. It’s been too long, the longest 19 months of my life. It is not as beautiful as your country. But we can be together here in peace and show our love to the world.
Marlene
December 17th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
I guess is doesn’t matter if it’s a man or a woman. Whites and guns don’t mix. We either kill others or they kill us. Or we kill others and ourselves.
What is wrong with just killing yourself and leaving the others to fend for themselves.
Guess that would be too selfish.
Keith
December 17th, 2011 at 5:16 pm
JJ before you get madder. It was just as it was. A ride baby.Just a ride.
I would have made this touch earlier but I kept getting this – You are posting comments too quickly. Slow down -
I’m trying again. Baby you know Tasha has your back and she will tell you I don’t play that.
So are we Good? Baby?
Donnie
December 17th, 2011 at 5:30 pm
This is going to turn out to be another killing done by someone on one of those Anti-Depression drugs like: Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Ritalin or something.
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Ban these drugs now !
April 28 1992: Cambridge, MA, Kenneth Seguin, 35, drugged his two children, seven-year-old Daniel and 5-year-old Amy, then cut their throats and wrists and dumped their bodies in a nearby pond before driving home and killing his wife with an axe while she slept then dumping her body into a river.
Described as a “model husband and father”. He was on Prozac.
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March 1996: Daryl Dempsay, 35, Burlington, Kan. Dempsay stabbed his wife and two children at their home, then shot and killed himself with a .22-caliber rifle.
His wife and children survived and filed a suit against the manufacturer of Zoloft claiming that Daryl became violent because of an adverse reaction to the Zoloft.
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May 1, 1997: San Jose, California; Reynaldo Lacuzong, 35; Lacuzong left a suicide note in his home indicating that he had killed his daughter, Rechelle, 9, and his son, Reneil, 5, and then himself, police said.
The bodies were found in a bathtub. Lacuzong was taking Paxil at the time of the murders.
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November 30, 1998: Dalton Township, MI: Seth Privacky, 18-years-old; Shot his grandfather, parents, brother and brother’s girlfriend while celebrating a late Thanksgiving. He was on Wellbutrin.
May 25, 1997: 18-year-old Jeremy Strohmeyer; Las Vegas, Nevada; Raped and murdered a 7-year-old girl.
Strohmeyer had been diagnosed with ADD and prescribed Dexedrine, a Ritalin-like drug, immediately prior to the killing.
December 17th, 2011 at 5:32 pm
You know what? I and everyone in my family are struggling and none of us have killed anyone or ourselves!
Crazy people shouldn’t have guns and no one needs a semi automatic, maybe if she had to reload more the kids could have run.
Food for thought anyway.
December 17th, 2011 at 6:01 pm
Guns do kill! I live in a small town in Chechnya. The secret police use guns to murder whomever gets in their way here.
We live in terror!
Here they kill journalists at will. Putin doesn’t care and the rest of Russia hasn’t yet begun to appreciate the power of a good press.
Ofra
December 17th, 2011 at 6:02 pm
That is what Putin does so well, murdering his critics and opponents.
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