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Bill Lane at a party to celebrate his 90th birthday in 2009 in Portola Valley’s new Shaping the Community Hall. West Photo by Dave Boyce

Bill Lane’s COMPELLING ACCOUNT OF THE HARD-WON SUCCESS OF SUNSET MAGAZINE

By Dave Boyce

t’s a safe bet that few can now say what these four things have in com- his parents’ role in the development of years, in any activity I’ve been involved mon: asparagus, the sliding glass door, a wilderness vacation, and teach- the Eskimo Pie. The story takes off in in with my children, I’ve heard them say, I 1928 when the family left their Iowa ‘Dad, you’re always looking at the bright ing teenagers to cook. According to the new book “The Sun Never Sets: farm and came to California in a new side,’ because I’m always saying that out Reflections on a Western Life,” Sunset magazine introduced and gained Packard automobile. In the car with Bill, of adversity almost inevitably comes age 8, were his mother Ruth, his younger opportunity.” acceptance for all this and much more in Western households. brother Mel, his grandmother, and the Mr. Lane developed deep roots on the farm caretaker, who drove the car. On Peninsula. He went to elementary school This memoir by the late Bill Lane, the at Sunset magazine and how he and his the outside — on the running board and in Burlingame, high school in Palo former publisher of Sunset magazine, brother Mel carried the torch lit by their roof — was baggage. The family dog, a Alto, college at Stanford University (and is published this month by Stanford father Larry to transform Sunset into German Shepherd named Cleta, came Pomona College), and was instrumental University Press and co-written with an institution that helped define subur- later. in incorporating Portola Valley in 1964. Bert Patenaude, a research fellow at the ban lifestyles in the post-war American Laurence Lane, Bill’s dad, had quit Hoover Institution and a lecturer at Stan- West. his job as an advertising man for Better ford University. The 200 pages are packed with analysis Homes and Gardens and was already in The book is a tour de force of the many and anecdotes from a man with a relent- San Francisco to complete the purchase and significant accomplishments of less desire to succeed. The headlong pace of Sunset. His mission: transform it Laurence William Lane Jr. Prominent covers Mr. Lane’s 92 years, starting with from an Atlantic-Monthly-like literary among them are events from his 44 years his early appreciation of ice cream and magazine to a how-to journal covering what were to become the “four wheels” of Sunset’s content: gardening, travel, home life and cooking, Mr. Lane writes. A pen- etrating and perhaps lucky strategy; the Roaring Twenties were still roaring, but the Great Depression was right around the corner. Jean and Bill Lane in 2006. Tough times for business were, of course, inescapable but — and this With his wife Jean, the couple had three will not surprise anyone who knew Bill children. He also took much pride and Lane — optimism and perseverance joy in playing Santa Claus at Christmas permeate the book. In Mr. Lane’s telling, at Sunset and later at the Ladera shop- those qualities also fit his brother, father ping center. Mr. Lane died July 31, 2010, and mother. The memoir is one man’s at Stanford Hospital. inside story of a family wresting suc- In addition to being Portola Valley’s cess from difficult circumstances, with first mayor and a member of its first a leg up from his parents’ effort when Town Council, Mr. Lane served as U.S. he and Mel took ambassador to Australia and Nauru, and over the business. U.S. ambassador-at-large to Japan. While Over the decades, at Sunset, he orchestrated a shift toward with notable pauses environmental advocacy in the world as for military service well as at home; after the 1990 sale of the and foreign service magazine for $225 million in stock and in Japan and Austra- cash, he became a busy philanthropist. lia, Mr. Lane says he The book mentions many notable applied the lessons of friends, acquaintances and officials his experience widely instrumental to Mr. Lane’s accomplish- — to publishing, to ments, including President Lyndon environmental advo- Johnson and his successors up to and cacy and to philan- including Bill Clinton, key members of Bill Lane at the entrance to the Menlo Park headquarters of Sunset in thropy. the administrations of those presidents, 1989. On the right is the cover of the February 1929 issue of Sunset At one point, California Gov. Pat Brown and several magazine, one of the first under Lane family ownership. he addresses his upbeat (Cover reprinted by permission of Sunset Publishing Inc.) attitude: “Over the Continued on next page

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Continued from previous page the control of handguns.” “We became very opinion- He says he tried to instill in ated, but always the opinion of his successors, environmen- editors the idea that Sunset was based on an emphasis in tal pioneers David Brower and reflected public behavior, not the article to get the reader to Martin Litton, members of private. “We were creating an visit the place,” Mr. Lane writes. Congress, and others. image there, and it had nothing And, not forgetting the maga- It was President Ronald Rea- to do with whether we ourselves zine’s focus, “our credo (was) gan who appointed Mr. Lane as drank or smoked or hunted,” he that effective environmental U.S. ambassador to Australia writes. “The image of the maga- awareness begins at home.” and and the island nation of zine had to reflect what you After the oil price shock of Nauru in 1986. would expect of your minister, the late 1970s, the magazine cut regardless of what his personal back on stories about wilderness Door-to-door habits were. ... For example, pre- travel and new homes and shift- Such acquaintances were sumably you trust your garage ed to remodeling and garden decades away in 1928, when Bill mechanic as a mechanic, to get clubs — and water conservation, Jr. and Mel were in elementary the job done on your car. You including the smart use of water school and sold Sunset door-to- really don’t care whether he’s and drought- and fire-resistant door on one Saturday morning a sleeping around or not.” plants. Sunset collaborated with month. Mr. Lane writes that he Pacific Gas & Electric Corp. to saw “husbands and wives both Advocate for nature build solar panels at the Menlo grabbing for the magazine. I saw As a young man, Mr. Lane Park headquarters building. firsthand, flesh and blood, how slept in the mountains, a place he “We are excited about the Sunset was a tool — not just a would return to throughout his future but concerned that we leisure pastime but a tool that life. At 15, he got a job as a handy- stay down to earth and useful,” was used to help these people in man with a pack-mule outfit that he says he wrote in a 1978 edito- their lives.” worked for the U.S. Forest Ser- rial. “Perhaps the biggest chal- “I think as a family we were all vice. Many times, he says, he led lenge for all of us will be to shift committed to making Sunset suc- eight-mule pack trains carrying from a habit of plenty to a disci- cessful, and we were keenly aware milk cans full of baby fish to stock pline of limits.” A of the seriousness of the Depres- At Sunset headquarters in Menlo Park in 1985 are Joan and Mel Lane, mountain lakes, with no one for “The Sun Never Sets: Reflec- sion and the dire conditions that left, and Jean and Bill Lane. They are standing in front of a painting of company but the mules. At night, tions on a Western Life,” by L.W. Laurence and Ruth Lane, the father and mother of Bill and Mel. existed,” he writes. “If you look the cans had to be unloaded and Bill Lane Jr., with Bertrand M. back at the early Lane Sunset, you set down in streams to aerate the Patenaude, and with an intro- see that the underlying editorial competitions, and advocated for Lane quotes a letter from his dad water inside and keep the fish duction by California historian message has to do with courage solar energy, the backyard bar- inviting two Midwest editors alive, then repacked on the mules Kevin Starr. 200 pages, 75 illus- and fortitude and looking on the becue, and teaching teenagers to come west and collaborate: in the morning, and rocked back trations. ISBN: 9780804785112. bright side of things.” to cook. Sliding doors, skylights “Certainly in these states there is and forth at trail stops during Trade paperback, $27.95, avail- Sunset became a family insti- and other means of “erasing the an abundance of money, motor the day. able online through Stanford Uni- tution, according to this account. line between indoors and out” cars, country homes and desire Naturalist John Muir, the versity Press (sup.org), Kepler’s Sunset brought to the Western were big, as were homes with hot and ability to have the best of champion of preserving Yosem- Books and Magazines in Menlo dinner table asparagus, arti- tubs, eat-in kitchens and kitchen everything,” he writes. “Strange ite Valley, was a hero to Mr. Park, and online. chokes, eggplants and avocados, gardens. as it may seem with this condi- Lane, and environmental advo- as well as mango, papaya, kiwi Sunset’s initial target audience tion, we find among the people cacy eventually came to Sunset. ■ Visit tinyurl.com/Bill-Lane-book and sourdough bread, he writes. was a particular demographic of the Coast a surprising spirit Sunset sponsored home design along the Pacific Coast. Mr. of friendliness and good fellow- ship with almost an utter lack of snobbishness. “While the contents of the magazine should be aimed at families with no less than $5,000 income ($67,900 today, adjusted for infla- tion), it should not be afraid to address families enjoying income as high as $30,000 ($400,300 today),” the letter continued. “I can’t help but feel that we can make Sunset a ‘mass’ magazine in point of coverage and at the same time, a ‘class’ magazine in point of editorial contents and appear- ance.” And, Bill Lane adds, “in fact this is exactly what Dad and his staff would achieve.” Editorial priorities carried over into advertising. Privately held and with enviable circulation numbers, Sunset could pick and choose — a tradition that continued after the Lane sons took over. No to beer ads, to tobacco ads, to pesticide ads (some years after publication of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring”) and to the National Rifle Asso- ciation. Staff had approved an ad campaign to soften the NRA’s image in the 1980s, but Mr. Lane Bill Lane with Ronald Reagan in 1969, when Mr. Reagan was vetoed it. “Not on your life will governor of California. Mr. Reagan appointed Mr. Lane ambassador to we accept that,” he recalls saying. Australia and Nauru in 1986. Bill Lane at the Royal Agriculture Society Easter Show in Sydney in 1989, “I just didn’t believe in what the when he was ambassador to Australia and the island nation of Nauru. NRA was doing in undermining About the cover: Bill Lane at the Sunset magazine fountain in 1972.

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File No.: 254758 STATEMENT 29 Birch St., Suite 3, Redwood City, The following Person(s) is (are) doing File No.: 254746 California, 94062, San Mateo County. 529-2420 business as: The Almanac at (650) 854-2626 The following Person(s) is (are) doing Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- Meadow Belles Farm, located at 175 business as: ing owner(s): Meadowood Dr., Portola Valley, CA Codex Translation Services, located WILLIAM MEZA, DDS A DENTAL 94028 , San Mateo County. at 885 Oak Grove Avenue, Suite 102 CORPORATION Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- #6, Menlo Park, CA 94025-4400, San 29 Birch St., Suite 3 ing owner(s): Mateo County; Mail Address: P.O. Box Redwood City, CA 94062-1430 NANCY KRUBERG 1272, Menlo Park, California, 94026- This business is conducted by: A 175 Meadowood Dr. 1272. Corporation. Portola Valley, CA 94028 Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- The registrant commenced to transact This business is conducted by: An ing owner(s): business under the fictitious business Individual. LILLIAN VALDES name(s) listed herein on 11/25/2013. The registrant commenced to transact 1820 Santa Cruz Avenue This statement was filed with the business under the fictitious business Good for Business. Good for You. Menlo Park, CA 94025-6137 County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo name(s) listed herein on N/A. This business is conducted by: An County on March 20, 2013. This statement was filed with the Individual. (ALM Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2013) Good for the Community. County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo The registrant commenced to transact County on March 6, 2013. business under the fictitious business PIP PRINTING (ALM Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2013) name(s) listed herein on 05/07/2003. POSTAL INSTANT PRESS SECURE-AIR This statement was filed with the FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo STATEMENT STATEMENT County on March 5, 2013. File No.: 254861 GREAT BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY File No.: 254841 (ALM Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2013) The following person (persons) is (are) doing business as: The following Person(s) is (are) doing WOODSHED EDITORS 1.) PIP Printing, 2.) Postal Instant business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME Press, located at 220 California Dr., Secure-Air, located at 230 Old Spanish STATEMENT Burlingame, CA 94010, San Mateo Trail, Portola Valley, CA 94028, San File No.: 254939 County; Mailing address: P.O. Box Mateo County. The following Person(s) is (are) doing Long time business in prime location for sale. 7023, Burlingame, CA 94011. Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- business as: Registered owner(s): ing owner(s): Woodshed Editors, located at 60 Callie BIANLOU GROUP INC. ALLEN INHELDER Lane, Menlo Park, CA 94025, San Owner Retiring. 220 California Dr. 230 Old Spanish Trail Mateo County. Burlingame, CA 94010 Portola Valley, CA 94028 Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- This business is conducted by: A ELAINE STARRETT ing owner(s): Corporation. Ample parking available. 230 Old Spanish Trail EMILY ROBINSON The registrant commenced to transact Portola Valley, CA 94028 60 Callie Lane business under the fictitious business This business is conducted by: A Menlo Park, CA 94025 name(s) listed herein on N/A. Private postal system with related services. General Partnership. This business is conducted by: An This statement was filed with the The registrant commenced to transact Individual. County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo business under the fictitious business The registrant commenced to transact County on March 12, 2013. Good Customer Base. name(s) listed herein on 03/11/2013. business under the fictitious business (ALM Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013) This statement was filed with the name(s) listed herein on 01/01/2013. County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo This statement was filed with the EPRINTS IMAGING.COM Will provide training. County on March 11, 2013. County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (ALM Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2013) County on March 15, 2013. STATEMENT Interested parties call 650-949-5891 File No. 254813 (ALM Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2013) File No.: 254860 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FREE WESLEYAN CHURCH TONGAN- The following person (persons) is (are) NAME STATEMENT AMERICAN doing business as: The following person(s) is (are) doing FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME ePrints Imaging.com, located at 2915 business as: Boost STATEMENT Ralston Ave., Hillsborough, CA 94010, Located at: File No.: 255028 San Mateo County; Mailing address: P.O Business Address: 850 Hansen Way The following person (persons) is (are) Box 7023 Burlingame, CA 94011. City, State, Zip, County: Palo Alto, CA doing business as: Free Wesleyan Registered owner(s): 94304, Santa Clara Church Tongan-American, located at ePrints Imaging, LLC Is (are) hereby registered by the follow- 2493 Pulgas Ave., East Palo Alto, CA 2915 Ralston Ave. ing owner(s): 94303, San Mateo County. Registered Hillsborough, CA 94010 LUXURY AUCTION Name: Mercedes-Benz Research & owner(s): California MAGNIFICENT CUSTOM ESTATE, UNIQUE CRAFTMANSHIP...IN ATHERTON, CA Development North America, Inc. FREE WESLEYAN CHURCH TONGAN- This business is conducted by: A STARTING BID $7,100,000 // SATURDAY, JUNE 8 AT NOON City: Palo Alto AMERICAN Limited Liability Company. State: CA 2943 Pulgas Ave. The registrant commenced to transact Zip Code: 94304 East Palo Alto, CA 94303 business under the fictitious business This business is conducted by: a cor- This business is conducted by: a name(s) listed herein on N/A. poration. Corporation. This statement was filed with the Corporation/LLC: Yes The registrant commenced to transact County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo Organization: DE business under the fictitious business County on March 12, 2013. LLC: name(s) listed above on N/A. (ALM Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013) The registrant commenced to transact This statement was filed with the ERIN MAC JEWELRY business under the FBN or names on County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo `Ì declare that all information in this FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME County on March 20, 2013. STATEMENT statement is true`` (A registrant who (ALM Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2013) declares as true information which he File No.: 254906 or she know to be false is guilty of a SARA’S MASSAGE THERAPY The following Person(s) is (are) doing crime.) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business as: Signature of Registrant: Johann STATEMENT Erin Mac Jewelry, located at 325 Jungwirth File No.: 255011 Sharon Park Drive, Suite D6, Menlo Print Name: Johann Jungwirth, CEO & The following person(s) is (are) doing Park, CA 94025, USA, San Mateo President business as: County. Signature MUST be that of an appropri- Sara’s Massage Therapy, located at Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- ate person, i.e. the individual, one of 1285 Bay Laurel Drive, Menlo Park, CA ing owner(s): the general partners, a trustee or, if a 94025, San Mateo County. ERIN MACGERAGHTY corporation, by an officer (title must be Is (are) hereby registered by the follow- 325 Sharon Park Drive, Suite D6 included). ing owners(s): Menlo Park, CA 94025 A fictitious business name statement SARA GREGORY LEWIS This business is conducted by: A expires five years from the date it was 1285 Bay Laurel Drive Corporation. filed in the office of the County Clerk. Menlo Park, CA 94025 The registrant commenced to transact The filing of this statement does not of This business is conducted by: An business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein on N/A. BOND #351269 // DRE 01375969 // DRE 01112681 itself authorize the use in this state of Individual. a fictitious business name in violation The Registrant commencee to transact This statement was filed with the of the rights of another under federal, business under the FBN or names on County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo state, or common law. N/A. County on March 14, 2013. This statement was filed with Mark This statement was filed with the (ALM Apr. 3, 10, 17, 24, 2013) Church, Assessor-County Clerk- County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo Recorder, San Mateo County on March County on March 19, 2013. ANA’S PARTY STORE 8, 2013. (ALM Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2013) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME MARCK CHURCH, COUNTY CLERK PERCEPTA GROUP LLC STATEMENT BY: ANSHU NAND, Deputy Clerk FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No.: 254921 (ALM Mar. 20, 27, Apr. 3, 10, 2013) File No.: 255082 The following person (persons) is (are) BABETTE SHENNAN The following Person(s) is (are) doing doing business as: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME business as: Ana’s Party Store, located at 910 STATEMENT Percepta Group LLC, located at 1621 Newbridge St., East Palo Alto, CA File No.: 254681 Virginia Ave., Redwood City, CA 94061, 94303, San Mateo County. The following person(s) is (are) doing San Mateo County. Registered owner(s): 96 HEATHER DRIVE // ATHERTON, CA business as: Is (Are) hereby registered by the following ANA M. CARRANZA 576 Sacramento St. Stunning Tuscan Three-Story Estate Babette Shennan, located at 75 Kilroy owner(s): Way, Atherton, CA, 94027, San Mateo PERCEPTA GROUP LLC East Palo Alto, CA 94303 8 beds, 12 baths // 10,680 sq ft County. 1621 Virginia Ave. This business is conducted by: An Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- Redwood City, CA 94061 Individual. VIEWING APPOINTMENTS ing owner(s): This business is conducted by: Limited The registrant commenced to transact Elizabeth Shennan Liability Company. business under the fictitious business 800.290.3290 x9003 75 Kilroy Way The registrant commenced to transact name(s) listed herein on N/A. IN CONJUNCTION WITH DOMINIC NICOLI Atherton, CA 94027-5405 business under the fictitious business This business is conducted by: An name(s) listed herein on 04/01/2013. WATCH THE VIRTUAL TOUR Individual. 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ONETAP CONSULTING OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE TFLG, A Law Corporation STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME 202 Cousteau Place, Suite 260 STATEMENT COUNTY OF SAN MATEO Davis, CA 95618 Case No.: CIV519715 File No.: 255242 (530)750-3700 LEGAL TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: The following Person(s) is (are) doing (ALM Apr. 10, 17, 2013) business as: Petitioner: RUTH SYLVIA ELIAS filed \aNXU_TUZS ZQQP_ Onetap Consulting, located at 263 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE a petition with this court for a decree Santa Margarita Avenue, Menlo Park, OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE changing names as follows: CA 94025, San Mateo County. STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE RUTH SYLVIA ELIAS aka RUTH SYLVIA s./4)#%3/&0%4)4)/.4/!$-).)34%2%34!4% Is (Are) hereby registered by the follow- COUNTY OF SAN MATEO KOOMRUIAN aka RUTH KOOMRUJAN PROTECT YOUR Case No.: CIV519527 BEANE aka RUTH KOOMRUIAN O’NEILL ing owner(s): LEGAL RIGHTS BYRON CONNELL TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: to RUTH ELIZABETH SYLVIA ELIAS. s05",)#(%!2).'./4)#%3 263 Santa Margarita Avenue Petitioner: ANDREW BRYAN SCHWAAB THE COURT ORDERS that all persons If it has been 5 years since you Menlo Park, CA 94025 and YOUNHEE KIM SCHWAAB filed a interested in this matter appear before s42534%%33!,% filed your Fictitious Business This business is conducted by: An petition with this court for a decree this court at the hearing indicated changing names as follows: below to show cause, if any, why the Name Statement (your D.B.A.), Individual. s2%3/,54)/.3 The registrant commenced to transact THOMAS RICHARD SCHWAAB to petition for change of name should not you must file again to protect business under the fictitious business THOMAS MINKYU SCHWAAB. be granted. Any person objecting to the name(s) listed herein on N/A. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons name changes described above must s")$./4)#%3 your legal rights. This statement was filed with the interested in this matter appear before file a written objection that includes the Check your records now to see if this court at the hearing indicated reasons for the objection at least two County Clerk-Recorder of San Mateo s,)%.3!,% your D.B.A. expires this year. County on March 29, 2013. below to show cause, if any, why the court days before the matter is sched- (ALM Apr. 10, 17, 24, May 1, 2013) petition for change of name should not uled to be heard and must appear at Then call the Almanac, be granted. Any person objecting to the the hearing to show cause why the peti- name changes described above must tion should not be granted. If no written for assistance in refiling. 997 All Other Legals file a written objection that includes the objection is timely filed, the court may It’s inexpensive and easy. 1NOTICE OF SALE OF UNCLAIMED reasons for the objection at least two grant the petition without a hearing. PERSONAL PROPERTY court days before the matter is sched- NOTICE OF HEARING: April 26, 2013, uled to be heard and must appear at 9:00 a.m., Dept.: PJ, Room: 2J, of the Call Alicia Santillan In accordance with California Civil the hearing to show cause why the peti- Superior Court of California, County (650) 326-8210 x6578 Code Section 1988(b), personal tion should not be granted. If no written of San Mateo, located at 400 County property left by ARMEN JALALIAN, objection is timely filed, the court may Center, Redwood City, CA 94063. Or e-mail her at: SUSAN M. JALALIAN to the possession grant the petition without a hearing. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE [email protected] of JPMorgan Chase Bank, National NOTICE OF HEARING: April 18, 2013, shall be published at least once each Association at 1 Reids Roost Road, 9:00 a.m., Dept.: 21, Room: 2J, of the week for four successive weeks prior to Woodside, CA 94062 will be sold at Superior Court of California, County the date set for hearing on the petition public auction Wednesday, April 24, of San Mateo, located at 400 County in the following newspaper of general 2013 at noon, the highest bidder Center, Redwood City, CA 94063. circulation, printed in this county: for cash. Property to be auctioned A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW THE ALMANAC includes: Boxes, lumber, buckets, CAUSE shall be published at least once Date: March 12, 2013 bags, framed picture, bins, basketball each week for four successive weeks /s/ Robert D. Foiles hoop, crates, washer, desks, chairs, prior to the date set for hearing on JUDGE OF THE SUPERIOR COURT 326.8210 pallets, dolly, table, luggage, suitcase, the petition in the following newspaper (ALM Mar. 27, Apr. 3, 10, 17, 2013)

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