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2019 WAI Conference
March 5-8, 2019
The Tundra Resort and Lodge
Green Bay, WI
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Tuesday, March 5, 2019
8:00 – 12:00 Property Evidence Room 101
Lawrence Stringham – Tri-Tech Forensics Florida
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Evidence Packaging and Submission Guidelines for WSCLB
Kathy Mahnke and Katrina Behnke – Wisconsin State Crime Lab
2:00 – 5:00 Best Practice Manual Update
Wednesday, March 6, 2019
8:00 – 8:30 Opening Ceremony
8:30 – 12:00 Beaver Dam Apartment Explosion
FBI Special Agent Mark Dring
FBI Special Agent Bomb Tech Milan Momcilovic
Deputy Sheriff Bob Richardson – Dane County Sheriff
In March of 2018, the largest TATP (peroxide based homemade explosive) seizure to date in the US occurred after a post blast investigation at a residence in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin. The detonation resulted in one fatality and the multi day evacuation of over 200 residents and senior citizens. The Dane County Bomb Squad as well as the FBI, ATF, WI National Guard 5th Civil Support Team responded along with numerous other state and local assets. The initial scene stabilization took 4 days during which several controlled detonations were performed along with advanced evidence collections at several different locations.
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 3:00 Zelich Suitcase Homicides
Detective Jeff Recknagel – Walworth County Sheriff
On June 5, 2014 a Public Works employee was cutting the ditch line and found 2 suitcases near Lake Geneva. The suitcases each contained an adult deceased woman that were both in advanced states of decomposition. By networking with other Agency's we were able to identify Steven Zelich, an experienced Wisconsin law enforcement officer, as a person of interest. The case gave insight to the BDSM world and how science and networking will solve cases.
(2:00 break) WAI Group Photo
3:15 – 5:00 Child Pornography
Special Agent Chad Racine - DCI Appleton Regional Field Office
This presentation is related to the legal process, storage, and field previewing of child pornographic evidence to prosecutors and defense attorneys. S/A Racine will also entertain questions attendees may have related to this area.
7:00 - ? President's Reception
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Break Outs (morning)
• 8:00 – 9:20
• 9:25 – 10:45
• 10:50 – 12:05
Major Case Prints/Latent Print Processing (10 students max)
Madelyne Weismantel – Wisconsin State Crime Lab
This class will cover Dye Stains (e.g. Rhodamine 6G), a brief overview of superglue fuming, and taking major case prints using tape and powder (Hands-On)
Alternate Light Source Photography of Bodily Fluids
Paul Olsen – Sheboygan PD
This will cover what type of evidence you can search for, how to use the ALS and how to photograph evidence using the ALS. Students encouraged to bring their own camera and tripod to practice ALS photography. (Hands-On)
Basic Photography – Knowing Your Camera (15 students max)
Chelsea Reed –Evidence Technician Brown Co. Sheriff
Attendees will learn how to take pictures when Automatic mode just isn't capturing the photographs you would like. In this class, students will learn about all of the "foreign symbols" on the turn dial on top of your camera. Students will also learn how to manage Depth of Field/Aperture/What's in Focus, shutter speed and what ISO does for your photographs. (Hands-On)
Casting Tool Marks, Gun Barrels, and Friction Ridge Detail
Jason Cole – Foster & Freeman
This hands-on workshop is encouraged for crime scene investigators processing scenes as well as forensic analysts processing items in the laboratory. The best way to become proficient is by practice! After attending this workshop attendees will be able to recover fingerprints from a variety of surfaces including textured and curved. Attendees will also make casts of tool marks and barrel impressions. (Hands-On)
Gadgets to Make Your Photography Easier
Bob Sanders – Retired WI Crime Lab Analyst
This workshop will begin with a demonstration of several camera accessories that can make crime scene photography quicker and easier. A handout listing some of these gadgets will be provided. Students encouraged to bring their own camera equipment to practice with camera accessories. (Hands-On)
12:05 – 12:45 Lunch
Break Outs (afternoon)
• 12:45 - 2:05
• 2:10 - 3:30
• 3:35 - 4:55
Photographing Troublesome Evidence at Crime Scenes (class size limit 15)
Chelsea Reed – Evidence Technician Brown Co. Sheriff
Attendees will learn how to capture low light photography with Blue Star, how to capture proper footwear/tire impressions along with how to properly take photographs in the rain/snow and not have the tiny dots show up in your photographs.
Handgun Hotline – State & Federal Firearms Disqualifiers for the Return of Firearms
Andrew Nowlan - Justice Program Supervisor CIB WI Department of Justice
This session will be about the eligibility of a person to purchase and possess a firearm under Wisconsin and Federal laws. The session will summarize the disqualifiers, highlight the differences between the state and federal laws, and provide examples of information that can be used to determine a person's eligibility to possess a firearm.
Development of Friction Ridge Detail from Cartridge Cases and Cleaned Metals
Jason Cole – Foster & Freeman
This presentation will begin by providing attendees with a background to a new novel chemical fuming process that has been shown to offer significant advantages over traditional latent fingermark enhancement processes across a range of metallic substrates (copper, brass, stainless steel, etc). Described by the UK Ministry of Defense as 'revolutionary' and 'ground-breaking', the unique ability of this process to recover fingerprint ridge patterns when none of the latent fingermark residue actually remains on the substrate (i.e. the surface has been wiped clean, washed, submerged in water, heated, or a combination of these) will be explored and practical examples illustrated and discussed. (Lecture)
BERLA – Infotainment in Vehicles
Detective Tim Blanke – Dane County Sheriff's Office
BERLA is a company, that creates solutions for investigators to identify, acquire, and analyze critical information stored within vehicle systems to uncover key evidence that determines what happened, where it occurred, and who was involved.
Vehicle Processing – DNA and Friction Ridge Detail
Jeff Jacoby – Janesville PD & Detective Paul Olsen – Sheboygan PD
Vehicle Processing: Searches, Prints, DNA, and Bullet Recovery
6:15 - ? Banquet
Friday, March 8, 2019
8:00 – 9:30 Working Cold Cases/Sexual Assaults
Detective Erik Goth – Janesville PD
Case 1: 10 assaults over ten years with same M.O. and DNA profile. Finally solved with a print that was collected at the very first case, though the suspect had been printed in Wisconsin during that time span. Several lessons to be learned.
Case 2: Assault of an elderly victim, by stranger home invasion. Blood left at the scene from suspect. CODIS hit 17 years later, victim now deceased. Original evidence retained so able to go to trial and get a conviction. Several lessons here including evidence retention, victim statements to medical staff admissible, and extension of statute of limitations on DNA profiles.
9:30 – 12:00 Waukesha Slenderman Case Study
Lieutenant Jerry Habanek – Waukesha Police Department
Detective Thomas Casey - Waukesha Police Department
Detective Shelly Fisher - Waukesha Police Department
Specialist David Platta - Waukesha Police Department
Shocking case from 2014, where two twelve year old girls: Morgan Geiser and Anissa Weier, planned to kill their classmate and friend Payton Leutner. During the presentation we will explore mirandizing and obtaining confessions legally from twelve year old suspects for attempted homicide. How to handle their parents during this process. And the issues that will present themselves at the Miranda Goodchild hearing and throughout the judicial process. We will talk about the impact of the International media and their effect on our relationship with our local media. We will watch and discuss the Forensic Interview of the victim, Payton Leutner at the hospital days after the incident.
12:00 – 2:00 Lunch and General Membership Meeting
2:00 New Officers and BOD Photos


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"I would prefer to sell this business to my employees, but an 'employee stock ownership plan' (ESOP) sounds too complicated for a small business like this one.
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"Could you please address this in one of your future columns?"
First of all, this reader gets my nomination for sainthood. Most of my retiring clients would grab at the cash being offered by the competitors and leave their former employees twisting slowly in the wind.
The concept of a worker cooperative, dating back to the 1930s in the United States, is beginning to be dusted off and looked at with fresh eyes, not only in situations like this one but in millennial-owned ventures that are rejecting the traditional pyramid-shaped hierarchy in favor of a more collaborative (some might say socialistic) approach to management.
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Trademarks are of great important to businesses. They improve brand recognition from the perspective of consumers and contribute to customer loyalty. Violating existing trademark rights can give rise to tough sanctions. In its ruling of March 2, 2017, the Bundesgerichtshof (BGH), Germany's Federal Supreme Court, held that when it comes to assessing whether a word mark or its components describe the goods or services covered, it does not come down to the importance or meaning the trademark owner attaches to the word mark. We at the commercial law firm GRP Rainer Rechtsanwälte note that the Court clarified that it is in fact the perspective of the audience being addressed which is decisive (Az.: I ZR 30/16).
It went on to say that it is possible by way of exception to negate the risk of confusion between two marks despite there being phonetically and visually similar if the marks' conceptual content is clearly divergent and this is readily discernible. On the other hand, the BGH ruled that if the meaning is only evident following an analytical examination then this is insufficient for these purposes.
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There are two kinds of companies: those that make a product just to sell, and those that make products they want to use themselves, because they recognize the hole in the marketplace and the need that's there. Griffin Armament is one of the latter type, and they design some of the most forward-thinking products in the industry.
There are a lot of back up iron sights out there, with their own differences and improvements over their predecessors. Some are fixed, some are collapsable. Some are in-line with the top rail, others are offset to be used in conjunction with a long, magnified optic. If you own an AR-15 or other modern sporting rifle, you probably like to try different optics and different configurations every now and then, which means accruing a junk drawers worth of different iron sight sets.
The hole in the marketplace is that there wasn't one pair of iron sights that were flexible enough to do-it-all. That, and nearly every offset sight on the market is designed to hang off the right side of the gun, leaving lefties out completely. Well, the guys over at Griffin Armament were pondering the same problems, and as a solution came out with their Micro Modular Back Up Sights.
Also known simply at M² Sights, they are flip up front and rear iron sights that mate with a dovetail-like base, secured together and tightened with a set screw. The use of the dovetailed joint allows for easy swapping between inline and offset, and also the reversal of the offset bases for either left or right handed shooters. The vertical set screw method is best way to secure the sight in place, while doing away with any unnecessary bulk that comes from a clamping design.
The M² Sights don't have a spring-loaded rapid deployment feature, but its not needed in my opinion.
Should the need arise for iron sights, it only takes a few seconds to manual pull the front and rear sights up in the ready position.
Not having an mechanical flip up feature also does away with extra moving parts, and thus removes variables that could fail. A simpler design can be a stronger and more reliable solution, and that's exactly what you want if your life depends on your rifle, and your iron sights are all you got.
The inline configuration of the M² Sights has the traditional M16 sight picture, except for the partially exposed threads of A2 front sight post.
Cowitnessing is just like it should be through a red dot optic, however the fixed aperture of the rear sight is a bit small for my preference in short range work, but it still works fine. Not having a dual aperture removes some utility, but its an acceptable compromise for a strong, solid construction. What really matters is the total height above the rail when the rear is folded, for optimal clearance of magnified optics. Folded, the rear sight is only 0.525" at its tallest point. This is plenty low enough to clear most magnified optics mounted at the appropriate height for AR-15s / AR-10s. For comparison, Magpul BUIS polymer rear sights also measure 0.525" tall when folded.
The real beauty of the whole M² Sight Deployment Kit is the angled plates that come in the bundle. The bases are ambidextrous, so you can position the dovetailed base offset on the left or right side of the rail. They are affixed to the rail via two set screws instead of just one, and only take up the smallest amount of rail space possible.
Both rear and front M² sights are windage adjustable. The front sight utilizes the A2 front sight post, so obviously its elevation adjustable as well. Using the existing pool of aftermarket A2 posts is a no brainer, and easy to replace with your favorite blade, even tritium equipped ones for low light use.
The M² Sight Deployment Kit is a well thought out backup iron sight system that fixes several issues that experiences guys have been wanted resolved. It combines the aesthetics of the more minimal backup sights like that of the FN SCAR, while using a modular attachment system previously unseen on a sight itself. Plus, they look to be one of the tankiest low profile iron sets I've come across. That, coupled with the angled ambidextrous bases that come included, make it a 'buy once, never buy again' upgrade.
Claim to Fame: Griffin M2 sights offer an industry first, patent pending, modular base plate system and were designed to be the correct product for every backup sight application.
Target Market: Modern Sporting Rifle / Modular Rifle owners (AR-15s, SCARs, etc)
FNBs (Features & Benefits of this product):
- Constructed from 17-4 stainless and ordnance grade steel materials
- Melonite QPQ and Manganese Phosphate finish
- Front sight compatible with mil-spec posts
- Included angle plates are ambidextrous
What other aesthetic options or finishes are available?: Black Only
What others are saying?: "Great sights. Very well made and designed. They are small enough not catch on everything, especially in a crowded gun safe. They mounted easily and securely and the rear sight fits nicely around the forward assist. Deployment is quick and sure with a solid lock. Sight adjustment is fast and easy. Because of the design you can adjust elevation at the front sight without the use of a bullet tip. All you need to do is depress the pin with a thumbnail. I am very happy with this purchase and will buy other Griffin Armament products because the quality is excellent." Amazon User Review
Price point:
- MSRP: $184.95 full deployment kit, $72.00 individual vertical sights, $39.95 vertical bases, $49.95 offset bases
- Retail: $164.68 Full Deployment Kit @ Amazon
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Our Rating:
- Easily convertible to inline or offset configurations
- Ambidextrous offset sights! Finally!
- A2 front sight post compatible
- Rear sights are windage adjustable
- Detents are really stiff at first
- Fixed small aperture in rear sight
Score: 8.5 Great
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Yay for spring! It's still not quite as warm and sunny as we'd like it but there's officially no more excuses left to not get out there and do something. We've got a busy one on the books for this weekend, for sure. Here are a few of my picks for Friday, April 29, Saturday, April 30.
The third annual New Works Festival kicks off tonight, Friday, at Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor. The free three-day new works readings, which will be followed by talkbacks with the playwrights, include: "The Roommate" at 7 p.m. tonight; "Community" at 3 p.m. on Saturday; Walker Vreeland's "From Ship to Shape" at 8 p.m. on Saturday; and "The Man in the Ceiling" at 3 p.m. on Sunday. Read more about it here.
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill kicks of its annual Salon Series tonight at 6 p.m. with Fourtissimo, featuring world-class pianists Ran Dank, Soyeon Kate Lee, Vassilis Varvaresos and Konstantin Soukhovetski. Even more fun, they'll be performing on two pianos.
In Riverhead, the East End Arts Gallery will open "Art of the Non-Dominant Hand" with a reception tonight, Friday, April 29, from 5 to 7 p.m. The show, which hangs through June 10, is juried by Mark Humphrey of the Mark Humphrey Gallery in Southampton.
Batten down the hatches. The summer restaurant season is starting to emerge. This weekend, Navy Beach in Montauk is reopening for the season, serving dinner on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, and lunch on Saturday.
On Saturday, April 30, Southampton Historical Museum is hosting an instructive "Learn a Colonial Skill: Shrewsbury Cakes" program for the kiddies at Rogers Mansion at 11 a.m.
And one of my very favorite early days is happening tomorrow, with LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton kicking off its season right with "Rites of Spring" from 2 to 5 p.m. I'll be there, camera in hand. Woohoo!
In Sag Harbor, the Tulla Booth Gallery is hosting an opening reception from 6 to 8 p.m. for "Spring Preview: A Forecast of our Summer Season" with photography by Dan Jones, Stephen Wilkes, Blair Seagram and Tulla herself. The show will remain on view through May 28.
The Southampton Cultural Center's Rising Stars Piano Series for 2016 premiers on Saturday. At 7 p.m. Pianofest Distinguished Artist Mohamed Shams will play works by Beethoven, Ravel and Metdner. While there, be sure to check out the "East End Realists" art on the walls, which includes Lucille Berrill Paulsen's "Family Album in Icons" images, which are just perfect for Mothers Day.
Lastly, for the animal lovers — Head up island to support the Animal Rescue Fund of the Hamptons' participation in Long Island's Best! A Pet Adoption Expo on Saturday, April 30, at Petco in Commack from 11 a.m. t0 5 p.m. More than 100 adoptable animals will be waiting to meet you at this free event, made possible by Maddie's Fund ®.


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The man dubbed the Beast of Blenheim will be stopped from having contact with women or children under strict release conditions, but he could own pets.
The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is alarmed that none of Stewart Murray Wilson's release conditions stop him from being near animals, despite being convicted of bestiality.
The serial sex offender's parole conditions are amongst the harshest seen in this country - he will be forced to live in a house on Wanganui Prison grounds, outside the security perimeter, and will be continuously tracked by a GPS satellite when he is released from prison on September 1.
Wilson will be subject to 17 parole conditions that strictly curtail where he can go and who he can associate with - conditions the Corrections Department say are the most stringent ever imposed.
But SPCA chief executive Robyn Kippenberger told APNZ it was also vital he was kept away from any animal.
"He's had a conviction for bestiality and so it would seem to me that as his crime was against animals, they also are victims of his and so they should be considered and have protection from him.''
Ms Kippenberger said Wilson had also shown no remorse for his offending.
"There was a quip he said when somebody mentioned his bestiality charges and he said `It depends on how you define bestiality'. So what you've got is someone who is just denying his crime still.''
Wilson had shown "extreme perversion'' around animals and he should never be left alone with them, she said.
The SPCA would be asking the Corrections Department to prevent Wilson from owning a pet in their lease conditions.
It would also be asking the Parole Board to include a provision for him to be not allowed pets when they review his parole conditions in three months.
Ms Kippenberger said the condition was especially important because Wilson would not have access to women or children, so "animals are the next best thing'' and danger to them was therefore increased.
"I wouldn't let him within 100 miles of a dog.''
A Parole Board spokeswoman said the board felt the "extensively stringent'' conditions that were imposed would encompass any potential risks.
A Corrections Department spokeswoman said conditions on Wilson's lease of the department's house had not yet been decided.


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Kevin Richardson and other stuff
Okay, I did my third exam today so decided to take some time to post a blog entry.
A month or so ago, I stumbled on an amazing video on youtube. It's actually a clip from a news show.
Intrigued, I searched out all the other videos on youtube about him. You have to mention lion in the search box because apparently there's a Kevin Richardson who used to be part of the Backstreet Boys. Anyway, this person is a truly incredible individual and the relationships he has with the lions are awe inspring. Probably the clip that reveals the most about how strong his relationships with the lions and lionesses are is this one;
Like the speaker said, lionesses are extremely protective of their cubs so the fact that one offered her cub to Kevin speaks volumes about her relationship with him.
After ferreting out all the clips I could find, I discovered that he had written a book with someone else; basically an autobiography of his life with the lions and how he came to start working with them. As soon as I could, Iwent to the local Chapters and bought it. It was fantastic! Such an enjoyable read. He had little individual stories for each of the different animals he's formed relationships with. The only thing I would say was a bit of a downside to the book was that it hopped along the timeline rather than following it chronologically. One story would lead into another story which came years after, which would lead to another story years before and it could get a bit confusing sometimes. That's my only complaint though and it's technical. The actual story content is awesome, I had to fight to make myself put it down so that I could study for midterms.
I have looked through all the courses available to me through my animal biology major and I have decided to take the two animal behaviour courses available, largely because Kevin's work has reall piqued my interest. I have also been interested in psychology for a while so this is a good way to tie it into what I'm doing. Kevin Richardson has been a great inspiration to me and I hope to sometime be able to do something like he is doing, that would definitely be my dream. Even if not professionally, I now know that I can hope to acheive a relationship like that with any exotic animals I decide to raise. Believe me, I know what it'll take and I am willing to put it in. I could go on right now about how raising an exotic animal and raising a child might not be all that different but I'm going to leave that for a future post as it will be rather lengthy.
On to the other stuff I mentioned. I found a youtube clip I love and think you'll like too;
I thought I'd put that as your humour source since I'm too exhausted to put up a quote from "How to be a Canadian". I probably will in future posts though. Until next time.
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The Colgate Scene
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|By Gary E. Frank
W.E.B. DuBois [Special Collection and Archives, W.E.B. DuBois Library, University of Massachutes-Amherst]
Hans Jürgen Meyer-Wendt, professor of German, emeritus, remembers clearly his reaction when he first read W.E.B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk more than 30 years ago.
"I was excited by the complexity of the mind that could write such a book," Meyer-Wendt recalled. "This man was a philosopher, a sociologist, a historian, and a great human being."
From the early 1970s until his retirement in 2001, Meyer-Wendt taught a general education course that included The Souls of Black Folk. He reread the book for each class and his admiration for Du Bois and his masterwork continued to grow. A few years ago, Meyer-Wendt decided it was time that someone translated the book into German. The German translation of The Souls of Black Folk, which Meyer-Wendt completed with the assistance of his wife, Barbara Meyer-Wendt M.A.'85, was released last April, the centennial of the book's original release. It was important to translate the book into his native tongue, he said, partly because of the two years (1892-1894) Du Bois spent as graduate student in Berlin, and because "this is a text that has a universal message."
The 1903 release of The Souls of Black Folk was "one of those events epochally dividing history into a before and an after," historian David Levering Lewis wrote in the first of his two Pulitzer Prize-winning biographies of Du Bois. "Like fireworks going off in a cemetery, its 14 essays were sound and light enlivening the inert and despairing. It was an electrifying manifesto, mobilizing a people for bitter, prolonged struggle to win a place in history."
The dawn of the 20th century was a time when lynching of African Americans went unpunished and the attitudes of mainstream American society toward the aspirations of its black citizenry were neglectful at best, but more often outwardly hostile. One of the notable books of the day was even titled The Mystery Solved: The Negro a Beast. "The national white consensus emerging at the turn of the century was that African Americans were inferior human beings whose predicament was three parts their own making and two parts the consequence of misguided white philanthropy," wrote Lewis, who delivered the 2003 W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois Lecture at Colgate in October.
Du Bois's analysis of the condition of African Americans a century ago is a major reason why The Souls of Black Folk remains relevant, asserted Charles (Pete) Banner-Haley, associate professor of history.
"This book is very important because it is a watershed document in American and African American intellectual history," Banner-Haley said. "On the one hand, it helps to define what America was about at the turn of the 20th century. On the other hand, it is a defining concept of the African American condition. It is important for the curriculum because it provides students -- many of them for the first time -- with an exposure to the way in which race as a social and ideological construct operates in American history. It also gives them a chance to see how modernity in America cannot operate unless the reality of race is taken seriously."
A century after W.E.B. DuBois's The Souls of Black Folk was first published, Professor of German, Emeritus Hans Jürgen Meyer-Wendt and his wife, Barbara Meyer-Wendt M.A.'85, completed the first translation of the book into German. [Photo by Timothy D. Sofranko]
Max Weber's letter
"Can you imagine? The greatest sociologist of modern day says in this letter (dated March 30, 1905), `Your splendid work . . . ought to be translated [into] German," Meyer-Wendt said. "When I read this, I said `Wait a minute, I don't need any justification for the translation of this book.'"
Weber had suggested that the wife of a colleague, a Mrs. Elisabeth Jaffe von Richthofen, translate the book, Meyer-Wendt explained. In a letter to Du Bois in 1906, von Richthofen wrote of obtaining permission from the book's publisher for a German edition, but also of the difficulty of the task before her. "It will not be at all easy to do justice to your work and to succeed in bringing the German reader even close to the impression of vividness and, at the same time, charming simplicity of your language," she wrote.
"After mentioning her poor health, she wrote that she would send Du Bois a progress report on her work," said Meyer-Wendt. "I can only guess that either her health failed, or the difficulties in translating proved to be an obstacle. We are not aware of any further communication on the matter."
But in 1906, Meyer-Wendt added, the famous Archiv für Sozialwissen-schaft und Sozialpolitik (Archive for Social Science and Social Politics), which was co-edited by Weber, published a Du Bois article titled, "Die Negerfrage in den Vereinigten Staaten" (The Negro Question in the United States). This article, written in German, contains aspects of the sociological ideas examined in some of the essays in The Souls of Black Folk, Meyer-Wendt said.
While he may not have needed further justification for his project, Meyer-Wendt didn't have a publisher. Most publishers in Germany weren't interested in a century-old tome by a controversial African American intellectual who had been dead for 40 years. Meyer-Wendt's break came from Martin Baltes, who had taught in Colgate's German department as the first Max Kade Fellow during the 1993-94 academic year and now owns a publishing firm in Germany called Orange Press.
The actual translation took the better part of a year, with the Meyer-Wendts doing most of the work in their home in Colorado. His wife, Meyer-Wendt said, was his greatest help.
"I believe you should never translate a text into a language that is not your native language -- the one with which you are truly intimate," he said. "But even so there are obstacles. Fine tuning is needed. That is when you need someone who has an intimacy with the language of the original."
"I think the way we did it was the greatest way to translate. His main root is in the German language and my main root is in English," Barbara Meyer-Wendt said. "We know each other and each other's languages well enough that we can sit down and have a knock-down, drag-out battle about how to get this particular nuance into this phrase, without getting really mad at each other."
The reaction to the translation in the German media has been very positive, Meyer-Wendt said, with glowing reviews in publications such as Der Speigel and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and on the German television networks ARTE and SAT3.
"This has been my most satisfying experience since I retired," he said.
Lewis said that the "publication of a German-language edition of The Souls of Black Folk is a fine testimony to the enduring importance of Du Bois's splendid meditation on democracy, race relations, and the power of the pen to move society."
"One hundred years after Max Weber called for its translation, the appearance of Souls in German has struck a deep chord for the good reason, as Weber understood, that Du Bois's book transcends its American audience and speaks almost as saliently to the German cultural spirit," said Lewis. "The `folk' in the book's title can readily be construed as resonating with the sense of `Volk' imbibed by the young Du Bois as a graduate student in late 19th-century Germany.
"As his biographer, I would wager that Du Bois would consider that one of his most urgent wishes has been realized with the appearance of Professor Meyer-Wendt's German translation of The Souls of Black Folk."
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TOPSO Study - Five European country study conducted in May 2003.
Study report
Psoriasis, the chronically relapsing disorder of the skin, affects 1.5% of the population of Europe and possibly 2.6% of the United States. Though not contagious, it is physically and psychologically very distressing. The condition is generally treatable with topical preparations, but compliance rates are known to be quite low.
InterPSO was a joint collaborative project which brought together a patient focus group, with participants from United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands to initiate a topical treatments patient compliance study.
These patients responded that complying with topical treatment was difficult, more so than any previous research has suggested and that, though their treatments generally worked, patients badly need preparations that are easier to use and that are less unpleasant than they are now.
1,281 adult patients responded, nearly evenly among the five countries. The average age was 51.86 years, the French tending to be slightly older and the Germans slightly younger. The sex ratio, as it is in psoriasis generally, was nearly balanced, except for the UK, where men were only a third of the respondents. Most lived with other adults, most had children, and half considered themselves their children's primary carers. On average, a third of the respondents had university educations, but variability among countries was high. It corresponded roughly with self-assessment of the severity of condition: lower education generally meant harsher assessment.
Most patients had trouble with psoriasis on their scalps, elbows, and knees. Ears, nails, and backs were also common. Germans, for some reason, were 5 times less likely than any other population to report psoriasis on the backs of the pinna or auricle (outer part) of their ears. UK patients were more likely to have it on their nails than French or Belgian patients were. Each patient tended to have suffered psoriasis for about 25 years, and about 25% of cases were generalised or severe.
Most patients were prescribed corticosteroids, calcipotriol, or salicylic acid. Nearly negligible were retinoids, calcitriol, and tacalcitol. People on topical treatments who also chose alternative therapies tried sun-sea stays or baths about half the time, and oral remedies 38% of the time. About a third also tried phototherapy, and 36% tried complementary medicine, including vitamins, homoeopathic cures, acupuncture, and traditional Chinese medicine. Dermatologists did two-thirds of the prescribing of topical treatments overall, except in Britain, where GP's wrote 60% of them.
Amazingly, 13% of survey patients used an alternative therapy instead of their topical prescriptions, and another 18% used no therapy of any kind. Without even considering patients who tried their prescribed therapy and refused to continue with it, this constitutes a startlingly enormous failure to comply. Why? We know that treatment takes a lot of time, money, and physical assistance. Three out of four patients say they need help from another person to carry out their treatment, and that that person is not available to help about a fifth of the time. Daily therapy, though it usually means only one application of topical preparation, appears to require 17 minutes a day overall, though this varies widely by country (25 minutes in Germany, 12 in Holland). It is not cheap, either. German patients spend on average 35 Euros a month on their local therapies for psoriasis, and British patients, at the other end of the scale, spend nearly 9 Euros; the overall mean is 21.97.
In practice, most patients finally did not comply with their prescriptions completely: only about 27% stayed the whole course. It was a little better in Germany, a little worse in France and Belgium, but the variation among countries was not significant. There was slight variation among users of the usual six topical substances. Oddly, there is no sign in any patient group that compliance worsened over time.
What did patients say about their treatments? 27% said their treatments didn't work well. Far more common, at 51 %, were answers that had to do with convenience: 26% felt their treatment took too long to rub in, 17% thought the process was too complicated or difficult, and 8% found the treatment 'too restricting'. And outweighing even these were the 73% of answers about unpleasantness, which contained the biggest single point of agreement of all: 29% disliked the stickiness enough to discontinue at least some applications; another 15% found the preparation irritating, another 15% said it had 'side effects', 8% disliked the smell, and 6% disliked the texture. 7% responded spontaneously, in free-text answers, that they only applied their medication when they thought they needed it.
The problem of compliance, that ought to be a straightforward function of whether or not a given treatment works, is actually a matter of agreeableness and time required. It was very useful, and the study was novel in this respect, to focus directly on the patient's point-of-view.
First published 2004: Skin 'n' Bones Connection, Issue 19, p19. ISSN: 1475-4134


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I've heard the days of choosing your child's Halloween costume are numbered. So this year, I chose an elephant. I mean, how cute is this little face peeking out from the gigantic floppy grey ears and trunk?
Okay; he threw a fit at first.
I asked him to smile and I'd give him a graham cracker. He said decisively, "No!" But I won.
I seriously giggled with glee for the entire 2 hours he kept it on at our church's Fall Block Party.
Finn also had his first train ride at the party. He kept asking for the "tractor" at home afterward.
I loved watching Finn and Emily (little sunshine) interact. They are buds from the nursery. Emily just laid her head down on Finn's tray and then they played hide-and-seek. Adorable!
As a mom, I'm loving Halloween. It means murder mystery for the adults and ridiculously cute costumes, a wild imagination and yummies for the kids. Such fun…not sure Finn's quite convinced. 🙂
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Leadership Competency and Its Related Factors for NursesName : Mei-Chuan Pai
Affliation : RN, BSN, Head Nurse
University : Mackay Memorial Hospital
Country : Taiwan
Background: The aim of this research is to understand the leadership competency and its related factors for nurses at a medical center in northern Taiwan.
Materials & Methods: Cross-sectional survey is the research design. Through purposive sampling, 490 nurses who have already worked more than 3 years at a medical center in northern Taiwan were recruited to be the research subjects. Questionnaire about leadership competency with Likert 5-Piont Scale was the research instrument. The higher score represents better leadership competency. Data were analyzed with SPSS for windows 17.0.
Results: Effective response rate was 86.94? (n=426) There sult showed the average
Conclusions: The research offered the reference material for human resource development to the nursing administer. It is imperative to improve the leadership competency for nursing staff which will elevate the stability of the nursing staff in the organization.
Biography: Mei-Chuan Pai has been graduated from Central Taiwan University of Science and Technology Department and her major was in Nursing. She is currently working for Mackay Memorial Hospital as Head Nurse and she has Nursing practice experience in adult care and intensive care for Twenty five years. She also worked as Head Nurse in Sub-acute Respiratory department, Care Center Mackay Memorial Hospital and she served as head nurse and nurse in several departments in Mackay Memorial hospital. She was participated and won in medical policy SDM contest in 2016 and in 2015; she won the new Taipei City Health Bureau merit nurses. In 2014 she won new North City nursing innovation results - honorable mention and Taipei City Nursing Innovation Achievement Award. In 2004 and 2002 she won the Taipei City Health Bureau merit nurses and she was elected Mackay Memorial Hospital model staff respectively. Mei-Chuan Pai has published several publications in the field of nursing.


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There is something so sweet about a newly engaged couple...It makes me remember that precious time I had with Wes and how special our engagement was. Wes and I are so thankful that Amy and Jason are allowing us to follow them on their incredible journey of being engaged! We can't wait to shoot their wedding on March 19, 2011! This couple was so much fun and was up for anything. We traveled all over Columbus, Georgia and found some great spots to shoot! Icing on the cake...they both graduated from our Alma Mater, Troy University, Jason played football for Troy, and Amy is one of my Chi Omega sisters! We hope you enjoy a peek at our great session with them! Thanks to Amy and Jason for being willing and having fun with us!
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There is a point where the resources to proceed forward are insufficient. There comes a time when too much has been taken on and proper attention is no longer possible. It is then that we have a Vulnerable Geometry that will lead to collapse unless a major sacrifice is accepted and a limited implosion is facilitated.
On a personal scale the example is a credit card account with a that the borrower uses excessively and creates a no-win situation. Let's say the interest rate is a simple 10% annual interest. The account holder has an income of $25,000. If he charges $1,000 he will pay back an additional $100 in the year. If he pays only $8.33 a month he will never pay off the balance. If he charges $10,000 and pays $83.33 month he will never pay down the principle. Carrying that to the next decimal point, it is $100,000 and pay $833.33 per month. If he keeps on charging more and more eventually 100% of his income goes into paying the interest. On his income he owes Federal Income taxes, maybe state income taxes and all the other required taxes. Somewhere around the $200,000 level he reaches that point of no return. He must default, file bankruptcy, or get a better job.
Now one would argue that he could not get a $200,000 credit limit with a $25,000 income. The premise is that this was a person who was doing this poor money management. Governments do this all the time.
In the 1900s America set out on a development program to pave roads all across the continent. Prior to 1906 there had been no trans-continental automobile trips and there were no paved roads between major cities and towns. Travel was by walking, horse, train and riverboat. After that first crossing, the miles of paved roads grew almost geometrically as the number of motorists set out to see the country powered by the internal combustion engines set on four wheels.
The roads were built and the number of autos increased. Local funding paid for the pavement. Private toll roads sprung up to fill a need. Soon there was the National Highway system being built with Federal taxpayer dollars. As the number of lane miles increased so did the cost of building another lane mile. On top of that new construction cost was the cost of maintaining the lane miles already built.
Culverts and bridges do not last forever. Pavement surfaces although far smoother and uniform later on were far less durable that the early stone and fired clay brick pavements. We sacrificed the ease of placement and the smoothness of asphalt and concrete for the durable brick roads. In my home town of Pittsburgh there are orange and yellow brick streets that still carry large volumes of automobiles. This pavement is 60 to 80 years old and some even older than that. They are noisy, cause vibration and are less modern that the less durable surfaces that cover much of the original brick that remains as the base layer. The difference is these roads have not required resurfacing, ever.
Even as we continued to build more roads, more bridges, more dams and airports the cost of their eventual replacement has grown nearly geometrically. At some point in time there is a mathematical limit to how much infrastructure that 100% of the budget can maintain. Once that point is reached, either the quality of the existing infrastructure decreases or there are no funds to add any more. Some trade-off must be exercised in order to maintain the level of comfort that we have grown to expect.
There is a juggling act where the performer spins a plate on a stick. The stick wiggles in a circular motion with the spinning plate perched on the tip. He must attend to the plate and the stick regularly in order to not allow the spin rate to slow down letting the plate fall. One plate is quite easy. He wants to impress the audience so he adds a second plate and stick. Both plates are easily attended to and the performance gets boring after a few minutes. We were impressed at first but our attention wanes. Now three plates would be more interesting. Four, five, six plates would be even more interesting. He sets up those plates and keeps going at the encouragement of the crowd. Ten, twelve, fourteen plates are now being spun on their sticks.
The dexterous performer has barely enough time to set up another plate and stick before he must run back to the first one to speed it up again. Soon with enough spinning plates in the air, he has zero time to allocate to setting up another plate. He is getting tired too. At some point he falters. If he tries to please the crowd with one more plate, the failure begins. A plate comes crashing down. He quickly replaces it and another plate crashes. Now he is in crises management. How many plates must he sacrifice in order to save the others and erect new ones to please the new audience members?
Plates and sticks or bridges and roads, it is the same juggling act. We built our city and suburban landscapes on the premise that there would be increasing revenues to keep up the pace of construction. Somewhere along the line we forgot about the cost of maintenance. We neglected to include the inflation factors that have made a $1 million bridge cost $50 million to replace. Sometimes we wait one day too long to close the bridge and accept that the morning commute will be an hour longer.
This is where the Principle of Imminent Collapse exposes itself. Financial managers all know that "time is money." They understand that when one is collecting interest on money lent that the longer the payback term is, the more money the lender will make. The delay of maintenance is money too. At some point in time, you have too much deteriorating infrastructure to ever repair or replace in the time you have remaining. The only remedy is to abandon some of the existing infrastructure and consolidate services and expenses.
My mother's town recently turned off traffic signals and erected stop signs in their place. This saves electricity and maintenance crew time replacing light bulbs and fixing corroded wires. The City of Detroit has registered a plan to raze about 10,000 houses in city blocks where the vacancy rate is nearly (but not always completely) 100%. If they get past the social justice objections, they will have the opportunity to decrease police patrols, EMT and Fire Department staffing, maintain fewer miles of pavement. They will have fewer miles of water mains, gas pipes, sewers and utility poles to service. In short, the city doesn't have the money to maintain everything that remains, so they will be forcing people to relocate. It is far better to do a controlled implosion than to allow the Principle of Imminent Collapse to create its own New Equilibrium.
Wilkinsburg, PA and Detroit are in the vanguard of what will be transpiring in a "town near you" some time soon. What was once affordable and manageable when energy costs were low, when labor costs were low and when we were building a nation for a booming population will not necessarily be possible in the coming decades. It may not be long before rural hardwired telephone service is abandoned in favor of wireless cell tower service. The telephone companies have already abandoned the last of the original party lines in favor of the private lines that were possible while telecom revenues were much higher. In many rural areas the only way they got electricity was through the rural electric cooperatives that kept the costs low enough for the electric generation companies to deliver the power.The world is different in this 21st century. What worked for us before won't necessarily continue to work as we move forward. What worked for 3 billion planetary citizen doesn't work for 7 billion and certainly won't be any better with 8 to 10 billion. We need to start now to determine what will work and what will not because the future is arriving every day.


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Have you ever been in the Decatur House? Neither had I, until yesterday.
If you've ever taken a stroll through Lafayette Square, you've probably glanced at it before. It's among the oldest houses in Washington, DC and it's the current home of the White House Historical Association (great gift shop by-the-way). This past weekend, Twitter announced that the house was offering tours on Monday, so I decided to take advantage.
Before walking inside, I took some free time and relaxed in the park, sitting on a bench and staring at the North Lawn of the White House. I still can't understand how that nut who jumped the fence managed to actually get into the mansion. I had the distinct feeling that were I to try it, I wouldn't be so successful. I'm slightly pigeon toed and not very fleet-of-foot.
Where was I?
I made it for the last tour of the day at 2PM. Lori and Cam were my guides. It was just me, so I got to pester them with all the questions I wanted. They were lovely and obviously passionate about their jobs. My favorite part was the biography of the builder and original owner of the house, Stephen Decatur. I'd heard the name before and knew he was a naval hero of some sort, but it turns out that he, much like Ron Burgundy, was kind of a big deal.
Stephen Decatur holds the distinction of being the youngest man ever to hold the rank of Captain in the United States Navy having received his promotion at the tender age of 25. He achieved national fame for his exploits during the First Barbary War (a conflict brilliantly explained by the late, great Christopher Hitchens as our first encounter with radical Islam) for the recapture and burning of the USS Philadelphia. He then followed this up with a brilliant ship-to-ship victory during the War of 1812 when his vessel, the USS United States, defeated and captured the HMS Macedonian following an epic sea battle. Decatur was a national hero, similar in stature to fellow captain James T. Kirk.
Using prize money won during the war, Decatur afterwards brought his wife Susan to DC and built a grand home for the couple within a stone's throw of the President's house - at the time the first non-presidential residence in the neighborhood. At last the Monroes had somewhere to go if they needed a cup of sugar!
Decatur met his end in a duel some years later, but the house he built remains standing. Ownership would change hands twice and the home remained a private residence until 1956, when the National Trust for Historic Preservation assumed control. Now it's a museum, classroom and event space with a rich history and gorgeous early American interior. The inside is full of beautiful molding, colorful walls, gorgeous wood inlay - the kind of stuff that used to send Bob Villa into paroxysms of joy during episodes of This Old House. There's a vibrant painting of the goddess Diana in the upstairs reception room while the California Room has the Sunshine State's seal ornately rendered into the wood flooring underneath your feet.
Admission is free and the house is open for tours on Monday. It's well worth a visit. Thanks again to Cam and Lori.
After leaving the Decatur House I stopped by the National Portrait Gallery on my way to work to see the new(ish) Civil War 150 exhibit on the intertwined lives of Grant & Lee. The two men were a study in contrast - breeding, stature, tactics & strategy, general worldview. The exhibit exists to explore this contrast and discusses how the two men struggled to overcome one another during the Civil War's bloody closing act. The dueling death masks of the two great generals are on display and were my personal highlight - reason enough for any interested American to schedule a stopover!


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He had the voice of an angel2. ERROR---Jolly Old St. Nick Posted: February 12, 2019 at 11:43 AM (#5814599)
And he had one of the drollest senses of humor of any play-by-play man, with perfect timing for every punch line. He almost made me get over the shameful firing of Jon Miller.
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It's officially been two months since I resigned from my full time job. To be honest, it feels like it's been a lot longer...maybe even a lifetime. This fall has been jam-packed with travel, weddings, events, the highest highs and lowest lows, and my own self-imposed overachieving business, but for the first time I finally feel like I'm starting to settle into a groove! Month 2 has been the hardest but also the best, and my anxiety is starting to shift into confidence. I'm doing this!
I stopped by to visit the zoo earlier this month for the first time since my last day, and it was the strangest feeling ever. Walking on grounds, I felt overwhelmed with this happy sense of "home," but at the same time I didn't belong anymore. The season had shifted and the summer crowds, lush green gardens, and hordes of campers were gone and replaced with golden leaves, a chill in the air, and dead crunchy prairie grass. My office was still the same, the people were the same, but also different. My workspace still has post-it reminders and lists written in my handwriting, and all my old supplies right where I left them, but Valerie has started to make it her own space and has taken on my old responsibilities with energy and grace because it's her job now.
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Like graduating from school, but if your friends and classmates didn't graduate with you...
One of my main goals for October was to implement more structure and routine into my schedule. It's definitely a work in progress, but I already feel so much better and more calm. It's easy to get trapped in the feeling of "never doing enough!!" but I'm also starting to force myself to reflect, track progress, and give myself props for the things I'm doing. I have a lot going on, and if I don't give myself a gold star, no one else is there to do it for me!
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-Applied for and received dual Dutch citizenship with my siblings!
-Celebrated my friend Kate's bachelorette party with a nude painting class (so fun)
-Traveled to central IA to celebrate my college roommate and best friend Christine's wedding! (And was involved in a very scary accident along the way that threw me off for the entire following week)
-Stopped by my grandma's farm to visit on the way home from Iowa
-Had multiple dinners, lunches, meet ups with girlfriends
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My Etsy shop ended up on the backburner this month due to personal events...but I'm ready to focus, create a holiday marketing plan, and ramp things back up!
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This was an incredible and potentially tipping point month for my health and coaching business.
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-Two of the coaches on my team advanced "rank"
-Ran my first training program for my team
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-Earned my highest weekly paycheck to date (more than my old FT salary)
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חרב מקדשנו and we lost many special people
My maternal grandmother passed away almost four weeks ago, on Thursday evening, June 28 (12 Tammuz). Her death was not unexpected, since it was preceded by a year of ovarian cancer, chemotherapy, and recurrence, but it was of course still very sad. Even before the cancer, she withstood years of slow deterioration in her motor skills from multiple sclerosis with what can only be called extraordinary good cheer and equanimity.
This is a what I said at the funeral. It was my first reaction, written almost entirely during the half hour preceding the funeral, with input from my older sister, younger brother, and mother. I read parts of it from what I had prepared beforehand and made some up on the spot. This is what I actually said, based on the the video my brother took.
I hope to blog more about my grandmother, her life, and our loss at some later point, but this should at least give you a little picture of who she was.
ד,א בן זומא אומר...איזה הוא עשיר--השמח בחלקו, שנאמר "יגיע כפיך, כי תאכל; אשריך, וטוב לך" (תהילים קכח,ב): "אשריך", בעולם הזה; "וטוב לך", לעולם הבא
4:1. Ben Zoma would say: Who is rich? One who is happy with his lot. As is stated in Psalms, "If you eat of the toil of your hands, fortunate are you, and good is to you"; "fortunate are you" in this world, "and good is to you" in the World to Come.
I never knew anyone as happy with their lot as Grandma was. What was most important to her was her family. Whenever we came to visit, she was overjoyed--so much so, that she made us happy! When I used to tell her of an upcoming visit—and I told her as soon as I bought the ticket, because I knew that anticipation was half the fun for her—she always worried that I would be bored—she didn't know what I would find to do in Palo Alto! She always said that she didn't know why I kept coming. It was never a problem—being in the house with her was a joy for me, even if she couldn't promise good weather—that was always the caveat she gave.
From an early age, I associated my grandmother with her matriarchal role of sustainer and food provider. She made us French toast with extra eggs—more than our mother would allow—and brownies that were out of this world—and she let my sister and I lick the bowl and the beaters. She once let me in on a special secret: an excellent way of getting two things done at once is to watch a football game while chopping walnuts for brownies. Nobody else's grandmother that I knew watched football while chopping walnuts for brownies. She was also the only grandmother I knew who was a good shot. Once I heard a story about my uncle challenging her to a match—and she beat him. I'm sorry [I said this to my uncle], but I had to share that.
I was particularly enamored of my grandmother's tuna salad with pickle relish, something that I was not accustomed to. Even after she was unable to cook for us herself, she directed kitchen activities from her couch and then her chair, answering questions about egg to tuna ratio in tuna salad, how long to cook the roast for, and where a particular pot was located in the kitchen, even though she might not have personally stooped to get it out of its location in many years.
My grandmother, in addition to her continual joy at the presence of her children and grandchildren, was quite…spunky. When my sister and I were interviewing my grandfather, Bapa, before he died, she interjected with a wonderful story that I'd never heard before. Once, when she was working at a five-and-dime, I think during my grandparents' first year of marriage in
Once, her wise counsel helped me get out of a jamb. When I moved between apartments in
In thinking about my grandmother, there were certain things that she always said. One of them was always take a sweater when you go to
I feel very fortunate that I've gotten to know my grandmother so well. To reach the age of 28 with a grandmother as such a constant presence in your life is a very special thing. I think I speak for all of us, the grandchildren, when I say that we will never forget all of the things that she taught us. Her life, and the way she was, was an inspiration to all of us.
Thank you.
I am sorry that we didn't tape what I said at my grandfather, z"l's, funeral in February 2004. I spoke from a few words jotted down on a piece of paper and was unwilling and then unable to reconstruct it afterwards. I would have liked to know what I said, but speaking from such an emotional, difficult place made it hard to even look at the notes afterwards, never mind reconstruct my actual words.
One of the many, many benefits to having close relationships with your grandparents is that you learn all kinds of things that your parents can't teach you. For example, if it had been up to my mother, I never would have been indoctrinated into the ways of nail polish at the age of six, nor would someone have told me (although I often ignore it) that serving food in the dishes in which they were cooked is uncouth.
I miss my grandmother so much, and I am sure that I will continue to miss her as life continues on its merry way and I realize how much left there was to learn from her.
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