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When Roecker thought about ending his life, he pictured his two children, minors at the time and now adults, standing by his casket. That prevented him from following through, he said. |
For Keith Henneman, from near Boscobel, an outbreak of Johne’s disease, a fatal intestinal infection in cows, appeared to be one reason he killed himself in 2006 at age 29, his parents said. |
“It’s very difficult losing cattle like that,” said his mother, Julie Henneman, who with her husband, Phil, sold the 60 cows on their dairy farm, along with the equipment, to their son after he graduated from high school. |
The Hennemans continue to live on the 215-acre farm with two other sons, but they aren’t farming. The couple have other jobs — Julie, 62, at Lands’ End in Dodgeville, and Phil, 63, as a correctional officer at the prison in Boscobel, about 75 miles west of Madison. |
They help lead a Dodgeville chapter of The Compassionate Friends, a support group for parents who have lost children for any reason. They also provide training in QPR — or Question, Persuade, Refer — a CPR-like program that helps people recognize signs of suicide and ways to help. |
QPR training sessions are one component of the new farmer suicide prevention project. |
Brenda Statz, 55, was no stranger to signs of suicide by the time her husband took his life in October. He had struggled with depression for years and attempted suicide twice last year after they got rid of their dairy cows in December 2017. |
It wasn’t from a lack of trying. Leon Statz stayed in UW Hospital’s psychiatry unit four times last year and was admitted to Winnebago Mental Health Institute. He saw a counselor in Sauk City and had outpatient treatment at Rogers Behavioral Health in Madison. |
Brenda Statz, who works at Lands’ End in its Reedsburg location, said she is disappointed with the mental health care system. Doctors didn’t return her calls or tell her and her three adult children how to help Leon when he was at home, she said. |
Leon Statz agonized about money, so Brenda Statz brought friends and financial experts over to look at their records. Despite some challenges, the farm was paid for and the family was doing OK, they would tell him. The plan was to switch to beef cattle and plant more crops. |
But Leon Statz kept saying he was going to lose the farm, Brenda Statz said. |
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It's become a lot clearer why Lorenzo Lamas' son A.J. allegedly stole random items from Target ... we've learned he was carrying a meth pipe during the incident. |
TMZ broke the story -- A.J. was arrested last month after he allegedly tried walking out of a Target store in Van Nuys with a wrench, clothes and tennis shoes. Cops said A.J. made a getaway after punching a security guard while holding a baby in his arms. He was apprehended at a nearby hotel. |
Now we're told A.J. will have to deal with charges of theft, battery, child endangerment, and possession of drug paraphernalia ... all misdemeanors. He's pled not guilty to the charges. |
We reached out to a rep for A.J. So far, no word back. |
Last week, we kicked off this year’s batch of New Yorker Festival blind items. Here are some more where those came from. The following clues describe three 2010 Festival participants. Can you guess who they are? |
Which multi-Emmy-winning sitcom actor once co-wrote an episode of “Law & Order” about a murdered gossip columnist? |
Which prolific fiction writer was inspired to write one of her earliest short stories by the Bob Dylan song “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue”? |
Which film director was shot in the abdomen during an interview with the BBC—and continued the interview anyway? |
The answers will be revealed on September 6th, when we announce the entire Festival lineup. If you sign up for Festival Wire, you’ll get the full schedule a week early. |
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No wonder the authorities wanted Facebook banned. But Iranian Facebook users are heaving a sigh of relief today after access to the site was reopened on Tusday morning. So what was all the fuss about? One of our Observers in Tehran explains the election debates raging on the online social network and why President Mahm... |
Although Ahmadinejad denies having ordered the shutdown, the reformist-leaning Iranian news agency Ilna, whose site was inaccessible at the time of publication, said that government representatives orchestrated the censorship. |
Iran, which has a population of more 70 million, has a strong online community with around 21 million Internet users. Pro-reform candidates for June's presidential election are seen as following in Barack Obama's footsteps by using the Internet as much as possible in campaigning. |
And it seems to be working. Many Iranians Web users see the recent ban as a direct attempt at closing down one of reformist candidate Mirhossein Mousavi's platforms. While Mousavi has more than 8,000 supporters on his Facebook profile, Ahmadinejad doesn't even have an account. There is however, a group entitled "I bet ... |
This post was compiled with help from one of our Observers for Iran, Omid Habibinia. |
I usually start my day with Facebook and spend about 18 hours a day online. When I went to log on on Saturday morning however, I found instead a message saying that Facebook had been censored. I was pretty upset, but we knew it would happen sooner or later. Facebook has become really popular in the run-up to the electi... |
Since last month the Iranian Facebook community has been divided into two main groups. It started when supporters of reformist leader Mirhossein Mousavi coloured their profile pictures green in support for him. In response, those supporting a boycott of the election coloured theirs blue. The reformists blame the boycot... |
More outrage was caused when pro-Mousavi supporters used a popular radical leftist's song in this video clip they posted on YouTube. The song comes from leftist group the Fedaii Guerrillas, who fought against the Shah's regime. Now Mousavi himself is accused of being one of the main perpetrators in suppressing the far-... |
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There also two other groups: supporters of Mehdi Karroubi (another reformist), who colour themselves white, and Ahmadinejad supporters, who colour themselves red. There seem to be lots of both blue and green profiles, not many Karroubi supporters and even fewer reds. Personally, I'm not sure yet whether I'll boycott th... |
Joseph Parnes, editor of Shortex, recommends buying shares of St. Paul, Minn.-based St. Jude Medical. |
Airspan Networks is up 70% from editor Nikhil Hutheesing's buy recommendation in late November. Click here for five more wireless buys in Forbes Wireless Stock Watch. |
The medical appliance and equipment maker operates in five areas: cardiac rhythm management, cardiac surgery, cardiology, neuromodulation and atrial fibrillation. Among its products are pacemakers and implantable cardioverter defibrillators, neurostimulators, heart valves and vascular closure products. |
St. Jude Medical competes against Medtronic and Boston Scientific , which last year acquired Guidant, in the implantable cardioverter defibrillator market. |
On Jan. 25, St. Jude announced fourth-quarter and full-year 2006 operating results that exceeded analysts' expectations. For the fourth quarter, STJ earned 42 cents per share, ahead of the 39-cents-per-share consensus forecast. It also forecast first-quarter results that are in-line with what the Street had been expect... |
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Sales of $864 million in the fourth quarter were up 9% from the fourth quarter of 2005, and net sales in 2006 of $3.3 billion were up 13% compared to 2005. The big improvement was on the bottom line. Net earnings of $155 million for the quarter were up dramatically from the $5 million that STJ earned in the fourth quar... |
Growth in sales was strongest in the atrial fibrillation and neuromodulation segments, which posted respective gains for the full year of 26% and 17% over 2005. |
In addition to the encouraging operating results, St. Jude's board authorized a $1 billion stock buyback, which the company plans to execute in the first half of 2007. STJ's current market capitalization is just shy of $15 billion, and it has 353.4 million shares outstanding. |
Shares of STJ are down about 13% over the past year, but have gained 30% since early November. They closed on Tuesday at $42.54, or 24.5 times analysts' expectations of $1.73 in earnings per share. |
Parnes recommends buying STJ and using a stop loss of $35. His near-term price objective is $47 to $49, and within the next 12 to 18 months, he looks for STJ to trade between $53 and $55. |
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The standing room only crowd at the Stanford Humanities Center had come to hear physicians read their own writing about the most difficult of topics: “I Am Afraid I Have Bad News: Death and Dying in Medicine.” The enthusiastic response to the topic demonstrated the interest in and need for such a forum. “This is a topi... |
Trueblood’s own experiences as a trauma surgeon, particularly during the Vietnam War, affected him deeply. “When I went to medical school, they didn’t teach you about death and dying,” he explains. Trueblood has found writing to be a powerful way to process his experiences. His memoir, Blood of the Common Sky: A Young ... |
and never will,” something was lost. |
as he works out how to raise a 3 year-old on his own. |
As Chesney finished the poem, his six-month old son cooed in his mother’s arms. The irony of the moment was not lost on the audience, as they contemplated the fate of the young father in Chesney’s poem. |
The moment itself is peaceful, I’m told. No fear. Simply letting go. Smooth, like a hair being pulled from milk... You know, we human beings have been dying for a long time. Your body has a natural wisdom built right in for shutting itself down. The body knows just what to do. And there are medicines along the way to k... |
Jacqueline Genovese is assistant director of the Arts, Humanities and Medicine Program within the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. Any patients described in the pieces referenced here are derived from the individual or composite stories of real patients seen by the physician-writers; identifying elements have bee... |
While on vacation--and kayaking down a Maryland river--I unexpectedly met some English-language learners and heard about an innovative extracurricular program they participated in at a Baltimore high school. A fellow paddler kindly gave me some paper so I could conduct interviews and bring this blog item to you. |
The five ELLs were from Digital Harbor High School and were taking part in a kayaking and camping trip down the the Patuxent River organized by a local environmental group, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, that my husband and I also participated in. For the teens from Morocco, Mexico, Vietnam, and Liberia, the Patu... |
The Patuxent River Sojourn aimed to educate us participants about the value of the river and its bordering forests and wetlands. The frog and toad choruses at night from the marsh were phenomenal. I spotted a beaver for the first time in my life. |
Lori Edmonds, a doctoral student in language, literacy, and culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, designed the program at Digital Harbor High School and connected the students with the opportunity to join the Patuxent Sojourn as the final activity for the school year. She calls it Language through En... |
The students also interviewed their parents or relatives about how people in their home countries care for the environment. On the river trip, they gave a presentation. Particularly interesting was a short speech by Tu, a 16-year-old from Vietnam. (Ms. Edmonds asked me not to use students' last names.) Tu, who goes by ... |
Ms. Edmonds said she based her extracurricular program for ELLs on two instructional approaches. She drew from the work of one of her professors, JoAnne Crandall, about the importance of content-based instruction--the idea that students learn English best while engaged in learning a subject. The other is that teachers ... |
The program at Digital Harbor High School was paid for with $12,000 from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and the Chesapeake Bay Trust. |
I love this idea! Anything which gets the student active and interested in a "classroom" setting has my thumbs-up. I read of an elementary school in Japan where the students do not have a typical brick type school. They wander off to daily explorations of the city and area learning with an instruction sheet and instruc... |
Kathy Griffin said it's been "devastating" to watch her mother, Maggie Griffin, rapidly succumb to dementia. |
Tiffany Haddish apologized for a stand-up comedy show she had at the James L. Knight Center in Miami for New Year's Eve. |
The U.S. West Coast got its first look Friday at the large inflatable balloon of President Donald Trump as an angry baby. |
Andy Cohen said he would understand if there's still bad blood between him and Kathy Griffin following their feud. |
Kathy Griffin is set to portray President Donald Trump's counselor, Kellyanne Conway on an upcoming episode of Comedy Central's "The President Show." |
A burglar ransacked luxury vehicles parked outside of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's California home. |
Andy Cohen will replace Kathy Griffin as Anderson Cooper's co-host for CNN's New Year's Eve special. |
Comedian Kathy Griffin announced via social media her sister, Joyce, has died of cancer. |
Kathy Griffin cut ties with Anderson Cooper after he denounced her controversial photo shoot aimed at President Donald Trump. |
Kathy Griffin went completely bald to show her support for sister Joyce Griffin as she undergoes chemotherapy. |
Anderson Cooper said he hopes Kathy Griffin will "bounce back" in the wake of her controversial post about President Donald Trump. |
Kathleen Mary "Kathy" Griffin (born November 4, 1960) is an American actress, stand-up comedian, television personality, New York Times best-selling author and an LGBT rights advocate. Griffin first gained recognition for appearances on two episodes of Seinfeld, and then for her supporting role on the NBC sitcom Sudden... |
Kathleen Mary Griffin was born in Oak Park, Illinois on November 4, 1960. Her mother, Mary Margaret "Maggie" (née Corbally), and her father, John Patrick Griffin, were first-generation Irish Americans. Maggie worked as a cashier in the Oak Park Hospital. The last of five children, her siblings are Kenny, Joyce, Gary, a... |
As a young girl Griffin attended St. Bernadine's Elementary School, and began to develop a dislike for organized religion due to the punishments of the nuns towards her and other "vulnerable" students. After graduation, she attended Oak Park River Forest High School and sought refuge in musical theatre, playing roles s... |
It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Kathy Griffin." |
Beyoncé, the most recent star to don the $10,000 Yves Saint Laurent boots, flaunted the footwear on Tuesday on Instagram, where she posted three photos of her wearing the shoes with an oversized graphic tee, waist-length hair extensions, high-waisted denim shorts, and a floor-length white belt, which she looped twice. |
Rihanna, who wore the Swarvozki-covered leather boots in an Instagram in March, styled the the shoes in a more punk-ish fashion, with an oversized leather motorcycle jacket, ripped jeans, a huge hoop earrings. For her ensemble, Jenner kept things more casual than her music superstar peers. The “Keeping Up with the Kard... |
Sadly, none of the ladies used the KiraKira app to show off their expensive footwear. Though, judging from how many crystals are studded on the boots, we’re thinking that the shoes can sparkle more than enough on their own. |
• Fire has damaged Livingstone’s restaurant in the Tower District, leaving a lot of people wanting to get away from their families this week with one less place to drink. |
• There was also a fire that gutted a Fresno home, and ones that took down a Dollar General store and a home in Visalia, so firefighters are really putting in the work this week. |
• Three people died in Antioch during a Thanksgiving dinner held at an events hall and it looks like undercooked food, or food that wasn’t held to the right temperature, was to blame. |
• This study that says people tend to expect the worst when waiting for news as protection from an emotional cost seems obvious, no? |
• Walmart, which was open on Thanksgiving for what used to be Black Friday, is trying to brag about being closed two hours earlier on Christmas Eve this year. |
• Fresno can claim the largest Hmong New Year celebration in the U.S., and it’s happening next week. A smaller celebration will also be held starting tomorrow. |
• Michelle Obama kept it cool and classy while speaking to Oprah Winfrey about the election, and I would expect nothing less from this remarkable woman. |
• Wait, there’s no official name for Clovis residents? I lived there for 10 years. How do I not know the answer to this? |
• A woman in the Bay Area was able to locate her missing husband’s body before police thanks to a smartphone app, which, although grisly, seems like the right use for that technology? |
• How much do I love it when thieves are busted thanks to their dumb social media posts? So much. |
• And finally, remember when R. Kelly met Aaliyah when she was 12 and then married her when she was 15? He’ll be singing songs in Fresno in February. |
Halfway through a holiday week, people. You can do it. Have a good Wednesday. |
The University of Wyoming Art Museum's outreach programs include the Ann Simpson Artmobile and the Regional Touring Exhibition Service. Both have been in continuous service since 1982, bringing art and art education to the people of Wyoming and beyond. Find a currently scheduled exhibition near you or arrange for one o... |
In 2006, Arthur Levitt Jr., former head of the Securities and Exchange Commission, came under intense criticism in San Diego. At the time, Levitt was raking in $900 an hour as titular head of an outside group probing the City’s financial-disclosure practices. His firm, Kroll Inc., and its law firm, New York’s Willkie F... |
Now that word “derivative” is hanging over Levitt’s head again. Financial derivatives — or monetary instruments whose value is linked to, or derived from, some other security, such as a stock — have dragged the global financial system to the brink. There are a quadrillion dollars’ worth of these extremely complex deriv... |
The way to regulate derivatives was through the computerized risk models of the dealers themselves, continued Levitt. Displaying a prescience he surely never perceived at the time, he said it was critical that “the models are not built on a house of cards.” Of course, it turned out that they were. |
And Levitt, Greenspan, Rubin, and Summers should have known it, says Mike Aguirre, who as city attorney battled the $20.3 million bill Levitt and his cronies foisted on the City. (The City sued Willkie Farr for unauthorized practice of law; the firm tried unsuccessfully to get the suit thrown out on the grounds that th... |
The unsung heroine in this slimy mess was Brooksley Born, who got her law degree from Stanford in 1964 and was named chairman of the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission in 1996. Once in office, she quickly saw that the billowing market for financial derivatives had to be restrained — and regulated. But that we... |
In May of 1998, Rubin, Greenspan, and Levitt issued a joint statement expressing “grave concerns” about Born’s regulation proposal, once again warning that interfering with the derivatives marketplace might drive the dealers offshore. In June of 1998, Greenspan, Rubin, and Levitt called on Congress to prevent Born from... |
That same Newsweek article told how Born had turned ashen after Summers shouted at her over the phone. In 2006, Summers was forced to resign as president of Harvard when faculty members complained of his arrogance. He also got into trouble suggesting that there are few women in the top ranks of mathematicians because o... |
“She did a fabulous job,” agrees Aguirre. |
The macho males who resented Born for being “abrasive” (and for being right) went on to engineer other tragic errors. The Depression-era Glass-Steagall Act had barred a bank from offering investment, commercial banking, and insurance services. It had to go, declared the musclemen. So in November of 1999, Congress overw... |
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