<div dir="ltr">Interestingly, Roland, I have a similar situation. "Wiener" frequently is mistakenly spelled "Weiner", and is frequently mispronounced "Winer" rather than "Weener". Family legend has it that my great grandparents, who were Lithuanian Jews, immigrated to this country when my grandfather was a small child. At the time they pronounced our name as "Weener" and spelled it "Weiner". But my grandfather had a very strict German instructor in his public school, who declared that if our surname was pronounced "Weener" then it had to be spelled "Wiener" as a derivative of "Vienna". My great grandparents were inexperienced immigrants who figured that the teacher had to know what was correct in this new country, so they changed the spelling to "Wiener".<div><br></div><div>Dan Wiener<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:15 PM, Roland Riemers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:riemers@yahoo.com" target="_blank">riemers@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div><span>Yes, i before e, except in real names. And prior to WWII it was "Reimers", b u t, my father changed it to Rie so it would not sound so German?????????</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>In any case, I am used to both spellings, so no problem. </span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Have more problems with first name: Is is Roland? or Rolland? or Roeand? And of course when I travel south of the border I go by "Rolando". In Grand Forks my worshipers refer to me a "King Rolando". I solved that problem in my youth by just going by my nickname "Butch". It is hard to mess that up. :-)</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Anyway, apology not needed. Keep up the good work.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Rolando</span></div><br> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <div dir="ltr"> <hr size="1"> <font size="2" face="Arial"><span class=""> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">From:</span></b> Alicia Mattson <<a href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> lnc-business <<a href="mailto:lnc-business@lp.org" target="_blank">lnc-business@lp.org</a>> <br> </span><b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Monday, May 11, 2015 6:42 PM<span class=""><br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Lnc-business] Email Ballot 2015-04: Elect Doug Craig to At-Large Vacancy<br> </span></font> </div> <div><div><div class="h5"><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>A point goes to Dr. Lark for noticing that I misspelled Roland Riemer's last name in these email ballot results. "i" before "e". <br><br>My apologies to Roland, and it will be my aim to get that right in future official records. Let me know if I miss one, though, and I'll fix it.<br><br></div>-Alicia<br><br><br></div><div><br><div>On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 12:25 AM, Alicia Mattson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Voting has ended for the email ballot shown below.</div>
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<div><u>Voting "aye":</u> Estrada, Goldstein, Hagan, Johnson, Katz, Kirkland, Lark, McLendon, Olsen, Redpath, Reimers, Sarwark, Vohra, Wiener<br></div>
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<div><u>Voting "nay":</u> (none)<br><br><u>Specific Abstention:</u> Mattson, Feldman<br><br></div><div><u>Illegal vote:</u> Craig (aye)<br></div><div><br></div>
With a final vote tally of 14-0, the motion PASSES.<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Alicia Mattson<br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">LNC Secretary<br><br><div><div><br></div></div></font></span></div><div><br><div><span>On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Alicia Mattson <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" href="mailto:agmattson@gmail.com" target="_blank">agmattson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></span><div><div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>We have an electronic mail ballot.<br> <br><b><u>Votes are due to the LNC-Business list by May 8, 2015 at 11:59:59pm Pacific time.<br></u></b> <br><u>Co-Sponsors:</u> Mattson, Olsen, Wiener, Hagan<br>
<br><u>Motion:</u> To elect Doug Craig to the at-large vacancy<span><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">Alicia Mattson<br></font></span></div><span><font color="#888888">LNC Secretary<br><br></font></span></div>
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<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><i>"In general, we look for a new law by the following process. First, we guess it (audience laughter), no, don’t laugh, that’s the truth. Then we compute the consequences of the guess, to see what, if this is right, if this law we guess is right, to see what it would imply and then we compare the computation results to nature or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works.<font size="2"><b> If it disagrees with experiment, it’s WRONG. In that simple statement is the key to science.</b></font> It doesn’t make any difference how beautiful your guess is, it doesn’t matter how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is. If it disagrees with experiment, it’s wrong. That’s all there is to it.”</i> -- Richard Feynman</font> <font size="1">(<a href="https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps" target="_blank">https://tinyurl.com/lozjjps</a>)</font><br></div></div>
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