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Environmental activist, champion of the poor and landless, African superwoman, Nobel Prize Laureate died today. I once had the good fortune to hear her speak and shake her hand. It's hard to lose people like this..we need them so much. Now THAT was a life well lived. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/26/wangari-maathai-nobel-winne…

My stepfather, Richard A. Anderson, was a lifetime fan of the Grateful Dead and went to many shows. Does anyone remember him? If so, contact me at falcondraco@hotmail.com Leslie Soule www.lesliesoule.com

The German player was local, from the Mannheim Adlers.********************************** I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde

In memory of the plane crash in Russia yesterday killing almost all members of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl ice hockey team; 43 dead, including players from Germany Sweden & Slovakia.

sounds a like a good friend to have; we should all be so lucky.hard to not see his face and be in his physical presence for just one more time but he is indeed with you forever. we just have to adjust our vision and and we can see him clearly from another perspective. rest in peace.

he sounds like a great guy, and a loss to us all.

Thanks Ted. I'm sure people on here knew Jeff, although not by that name. He often went by Hippie, or alot of times Rider (as he used forms of I Know You Rider for his emails and nicknames). He lived in Nashville. I'm not sure what nick he used on Dead.net. So my hope is that some of his friends here will see this and know that he is gone. He touched many lives in his short but very full life. He was a very good man. I miss him. Thanks for your kind words. sue

Sorry Sue for your loss: may the 4 winds blow him to a better place. Gr8ful Ted in KC

My best friend died. He had a bad heart. It finally gave out, as he has known it would, since he was a young man. He was 47 years old. Jeff was a genius. He was a jack-of-all-trades. He was also a deadhead...an extraordinary human being. The Grateful Dead family fit his gentle nature perfectly. He loved the music, the people, the natural family that grew out of the friendships he made on the 'bus'... He was able to use his skills and his brain to earn his keep and to help out people along the tour. and he loved the music...there was nothing in life that was too stressful that a Grateful Dead show couldn't cure...no matter how bad the day was, there was always a reason to get up and dance when Jerry was playing... Recently Jeff told me that he was bummed that so many people were needing help these days and he didn't have the means to help them all...he hated the politics that created the wealth divide, making things harder and harder for so many people. it weighed heavily on him. Jeff's heart finally gave out a few weeks ago when he was at Riverbend, his favorite place...his grandparent's place along the big river, where he had loved to play, as a child. He was revived enough for the ambulance to get him to the hospital, but then everything began to fail and he was kept alive on life support. He was non-responsive for a week or so.... Before they let him go, his sister brought in a Grateful Dead cd and as his family stood by him, she, holding his hands, talking to him, turned on the music. they had to smile when they looked down and saw that he was somehow, actually tapping his feet to the beat. the music truly was deep in his soul... They knew it was o.k... they let him go out, dancing... i love you Jeff!

Conrad Schnitzler.- Tangerine Dream member and krautrock/electronic pioneer. Joe Lee Wilson. - soulful jazz vocalist who worked with Archie Shepp, Sonny Rollins, Pharoah Sanders, Sunny Murray, Miles Davis and more.