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Oregon State Bar Bulletin — FEBRUARY 2010
February/March Issue Table of Contents Ripple Effort All in the Family Haiti Remembered Bar Counsel The Legal Writer Legal.online Managing Your Practice Profiles in the Law Parting Thoughts Departments Letters Briefs OSB CLE Bar News Discipline Applications Among Ourselves Moves In Memoriam Classifieds
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To mark its 50th anniversary in 2010, the Portland firm of Sussman Shank decided to partner with the Oregon Food Bank, Loaves & Fishes, the American Lung Association of Oregon, EarthShare of Oregon and Schoolhouse Supplies for a "Giving Back to the Community Campaign." The campaign offers volunteer and service opportunities to everyone at the firm. "We wanted this to be more than just a simple celebration or a cash donation made by the firm," said Robert Carlton, managing partner. "Everyone has really embraced this opportunity, and the excitement has carried all of us into activities and places we may not have gone otherwise." More than 100 employees as well as family and friends of the firm are expected to participate in the planned activities during the year.
Scott E. Nielson has been appointed by the Vancouver (Wash.) City Council to the city planning commission. Nielson continues to represent and advise clients in business start-up and operations, as well as estate planning and elder law.
David Munro of Thede, Culpepper, Moore, Munro & Silliman has been named Best Attorney in the Pet Business by Spot Magazine. Munro was singled out for his community activities, including serving on the Oregon Humane Society Planned Giving Committee and for testifying before a legislative subcommittee in favor of Oregon pet protection legislation. The awards were voted on by more than 450 of the magazine's readers.
Paul Cosgrove, of counsel with the law firm Lindsay, Hart, Neil & Weigler, has been named chair of the national board of directors for State Law Resources, an international referral network of independent law firms. He has been a member of the board for the past four years. He has more than 25 years experience in government relations representing national and state trade associations and Fortune 500 companies before the Oregon legislature and state and local agencies and boards. He is a founding member of the Community Health Partnership: Oregon's Public Health Institute and chaired its board of directors from 1999 until 2007.
Leslie Abraham, executive director and senior attorney at Child Centered Solutions, has been awarded the 2010 Harpole Attorney Award from the Lewis & Clark law school. The award is presented each year to an attorney dedicated to the pursuit of justice while maintaining a sense of balance among career, family and community. An award ceremony is scheduled April 7, 5:30 p.m., at the Oregon Historical Society.
Carmen Calzacorta, a shareholder in the Portland office of Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, has joined the board of SOLV, a nonprofit organization aimed at enhancing the livability of Oregon. Calzacorta focuses her practice in the area of corporate law, with an emphasis on securities law compliance, corporate finance transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and general business advice. She is the practice group leader of the firm's general business group and co-practice group leader of the firm's corporate finance and securities group. Walter Grebe, a shareholder at Schwabe, leaves the SOLV board after two terms beginning in 2003 and as chair of development in 2005.
Jet Harris, partner at the Eugene law firm of SkinnerLopata Harris, was recently appointed by the Oregon Supreme Court to the OSB Disciplinary Board. Harris's three-year term began Jan. 1.
Tamsen L. Leachman of Dunn Carney has been selected for inclusion in the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society. Fellows are selected based upon effectiveness and accomplishment in litigation and ethical reputation. Leachman leads the firm's employment and labor law team, and assists businesses with all employment-related matters, including defense of wage and hour, discrimination, harassment, retaliation and leave claims, and enforcement of noncompetition agreements.
Davis Wright Tremaine has been named one of Oregon's Most Admired Companies, according to a survey conducted by the Portland Business Journal. The firm ranked fourth in the professional services category out of more than 85 architecture, accounting and law firms. The firm was honored, along with other award recipients, at a reception in December in Portland and was included in the print edition of the publication.
Sarah Crooks, a partner at Perkins Coie, has been chosen as a 2010 recipient of the Oregon Women Lawyers (OWLs) Justice Betty Roberts Award. Crooks, former president and board member of OWLs, was honored for her efforts in the advancement of women in the legal profession. She has founded, chaired and served on numerous committees focused on the promotion of women and minorities both in her firm and in the legal community. Crooks is a volunteer attorney for the Domestic Violence Project at Legal Aid Services of Oregon and has provided pro bono representation to more than 20 domestic violence victims since 2002. She led Perkins Coie's domestic violence pro bono partnership with Intel and has trained and mentored other attorneys within her firm and Intel to represent domestic violence victims.
Jeff Cheyne, attorney at Samuels, Yoelin, Kantor, Seymour & Spinrad, has been elected as a fellow to the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. Cheyne represents individuals and businesses in the areas of estate, tax, business and real estate planning. He is licensed to practice before the U.S. Tax Court and has represented numerous clients in administrative appeals before the Internal Revenue Service. His extensive and comprehensive background in tax and estate law includes drafting and coordinating the successful passage of revisions to the Oregon Inheritance Tax law in 2005, 2008 and 2009.
Michael Ratoza and Laura Caldera Taylor, attorneys at Bullivant Houser Bailey, have been appointed to International Trademark Association committees. Ratoza was appointed to the East Asia and Pacific subcommittee of the Anti-Counterfeiting and Enforcement Committee, which evaluates treaties, laws, regulations and procedures, and advocates policies to advance protection against counterfeiting and infringement. Taylor was appointed to the Online Trademark Use subcommittee of the Internet Committee, which evaluates treaties, laws, regulations and procedures relating to domain name assignment, use of trademarks on the Internet, and unfair competition on the Internet. She has served on the North America subcommittee since 2006, serving as a task force chair since 2008.
Ky Fullerton recently joined the legal department of Umpqua Holdings Corp., the parent company of Umpqua Bank and Umpqua Investments, as a vice president and corporate attorney. He provides legal advice to Umpqua's business units, including special assets, wealth management, credit administration, commercial banking and compliance. He was previously an associate at Miller Nash in Portland, and also served as corporate counsel and treasuring manager for a private manufacturing company.
Mark Wada has been elected president of Farleigh Wada Witt, effective Jan. 1. Wada is a founding shareholder of the firm and has served in several management positions including president from 1990 through 1993. Prior to his second election as president he served on the executive committee and will continue to serve on the 2010 management committee with David Ludwig, Tara Schleicher and Brad Stanford. He succeeds Dean Sandow.
Williams Kastner announces that Portland attorneys Heather Van Meter and Marc Carlton have been elected members of the firm. Van Meter focuses her practice on litigation with an emphasis on drug and medical device, product liability and other complex cases. She has led more than a dozen trials to verdict, including six civil trials and six criminal trials as a volunteer district attorney and was named to Rising Stars in products liability defense litigation in 2008 and 2009 by Law & Politics magazine. Carlton has a civil litigation practice with an emphasis in defending transportation, liquor liability and products liability cases. He also practices in the area of medical malpractice and commercial litigation.
Elizabeth E. Puskar has joined the Portland litigation firm Markowitz, Herbold, Glade & Mehlhaf as an associate. Her practice will focus on complex civil and business litigation. Puskar has experience handling large civil cases, including contract disputes, real estate matters and employment litigation. Previously, Puskar worked as a deputy district attorney in Multnomah County and also practiced international trade law in Washington, D.C.
Garvey Schubert Barer announces Cynthia M. Fraser, Samuel C. Kauffman and Carrie A. Richter of the firm's Portland office have been promoted to owners. Fraser, whose practice focuses on land use disputes, condemnation litigation and property tax appeals, is an experienced dispute resolution practitioner, having been named to "The Best Lawyers in America" in the area of alternative dispute resolution from 2008 to 2010. She is past chair of the OSB Alternative Dispute Resolution Section and is a member of the Multnomah County Circuit Court Arbitration Commission and Oregon Women Lawyers executive board. Kauffman, who practices white-collar criminal defense and litigation, has extensive experience in complex criminal and regulatory matters and has represented clients in investigations and prosecutions involving environmental enforcement, admiralty and maritime environmental criminal defense, securities regulation, federal tax matters, tribal regulatory and criminal matters and civil forfeiture matters. He also has extensive experience conducting and coordinating internal corporate investigations. Richter represents business, community and government entities in land use planning and municipal law. She serves as deputy city attorney for Oregon City.
Whitney Yazzolino announces the opening of her firm, the Law Office of Whitney Yazzolino. Her practice focuses on estate planning, probate and trust administration and elder law. Yazzolino, a 2004 graduate of Lewis & Clark Law School, is secretary of the OSB Elder Law Section executive committee. Reach her at (503) 284-6778 or 2100 N.E. Broadway, Suite 119, Portland, OR 97232.
Jennifer B. Cordova was recently named a partner in K&L Gates' Portland office, effective March 1. Cordova focuses her practice on federal tax issues, with an emphasis on issues arising in the tax-exempt financing area.
Miller Nash has promoted Jason Conger to partner. He joined the firm's Bend office in 2009 and focuses his practice on corporate, securities and venture capital law, representing emerging companies in general corporate matters, as well as a broad range of complex transactions, including real estate syndications, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, and stock and bond offerings. Conger served four years as a congressional aide, co-founded a successful real estate investment company and was involved in the business development and management of several private companies. He was a teaching fellow at the Harvard College government department and at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, an Internet think tank affiliated with Harvard Law School. After graduation he was appointed adjunct professor of law at the University of San Diego School of Law.
Joel Christiansen has joined the Mitra Law Group in Portland as an associate attorney. His practice will continue to focus exclusively on the vigorous enforcement of employee rights.
Steven L. Adkins has become a shareholder in Evashevski, Elliott, Cihak & Hediger in Corvallis, effective Jan. 1. Adkins, who has been practicing in Oregon for 29 years, will continue to specialize in estate planning, business law and real estate. He can be reached through the firm website, www.eechlaw.com.
Watkinson, Laird, Rubenstein, Baldwin & Burgess in Eugene announces that Michelle Blackwellhas become a shareholder after joining the firm in 2006 as an associate attorney. Licensed in Oregon, Washington and California, Blackwell focuses on issues related to litigation, construction law, creditor's rights, bankruptcy, probate disputes, alternative dispute resolution and administrative law. She is active in the OSB Debtor-Creditor and Construction Law sections and the Inns of Court. She previously practiced insurance defense law, served as a judge pro tem, an administrative law judge and as a law clerk to the chief judge of the U.S. Claims Court in Washington, D.C.
Watkinson, Laird, Rubenstein, Baldwin & Burgess in Eugene has added three new associates, Lauren Sommers, Jonathan Cascino and Sarah Subias. Sommers' practice focuses on healthcare regulatory issues, including HIPAA compliance and licensing requirements. Her real estate practice emphasizes commercial lease transactions and real property acquisition and sales. She also advises clients on Truth-in-Lending Act issues. She earned her law degree at the University of Oregon School of Law where she was a Wayne Morse Fellow and graduated Order of the Coif. Cascino joins the firm's health law and corporate practice groups. Previously, he served as a judicial clerk for Circuit Court Judge Karsten Rasmussen and clerked in the Mayo Clinic legal department, concentrating on issues related to health and business law. Cascino graduated from the University of Oregon School of Law. Subias is a recent University of Oregon School of Law graduate who originally joined the firm as a law clerk in 2008. She is a member of the Order of the Coif. During law school she was a Wayne Morse Fellow and served on the Oregon Law Review. She will focus on commercial litigation, trademarks and estate planning.
Folawn, Alterman & Richardson has added two new associates. Courtney Dippel will practice in the areas of commercial litigation with an emphasis on representing financial institutions. Karmen Schmid will practice general litigation on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants, including cases involving professional malpractice, insurance defense, trust disputes and business torts.
Gregory Foote has retired from the Lane County Circuit Court as of Jan. 1, after 32 years on the bench. He was appointed to the Lane County District Court by Gov. Robert Straub in 1977 and to the circuit court in 1981 by Gov.Victor Atiyeh. He was elected six times since appointments.
Adam C. Kobos has been named a new partner at Stoel Rives, effective Jan. 1. Kobos is based in the Portland office and is a member of the tax section in the firm's business services group. His practice encompasses a wide variety of federal and state tax issues, and he regularly represents clients who develop or invest in renewable energy projects, including wind, solar, biomass, hydroelectric and other renewable energy generation facilities and biofuel production facilities. He is admitted to practice in Oregon and California.
Aaron J. Besen has joined Sussman Shank as special counsel and will chair the firm's healthcare practice group. Besen has extensive experience representing long-term care providers including skilled nursing, assisted living and independent living facilities, the landlords to these providers and related businesses. His experience includes handling the purchase and sale of operations or real estate of nearly 180 long-term care facilities, management agreements, regulatory issues, contracting issues, financing and complex transactional work. Besen returns to the firm after three years in private practice and eight years as vice president and general counsel to Evergreen Healthcare Management. He serves on the board of the Oregon Health Care Foundation and is a director and the chair of the Compensation and Corporate Governance Committee of EmpRes Healthcare. He is a member of the American Health Lawyers Association, Oregon Healthcare Association and Washington Healthcare Association.
Commercial litigator Edwin (Ned) C. Perry is now chair of the litigation department at Tonkon Torp. Perry joined Tonkon Torp in 1984 and became a partner in 1991. His practice focuses on complex contract, construction and real estate disputes. He has represented prominent companies such as Nike, Amberhill Properties and Stimson Lumber in state and federal courts, and also has an active mediation and arbitration practice.
Stahancyk, Kent, Johnson & Hook welcomes a new associate, Shirley D. Farmer. She graduated from the University of Oregon and the University of Washington School of Law.
Kellie Johnson, formerly a deputy district attorney in both Multnomah County and Lane County, after 13 years of criminal trial practice has joined the Oregon State Bar disciplinary counsel's office as an assistant disciplinary counsel. She can be reached by e-mail at kjohnson@osbar.org.
Gregory L. Powell has joined Tonkon Torp as a partner in the firm's business department. Powell counsels businesses of all sizes on matters related to securities and corporate finance, real estate, and mergers and acquisitions. He also represents capital markets professionals in proceedings and disputes. He most recently was a partner in the Portland firm of Roberts Kaplan (formerly Foster Pepper), where he was managing partner from 2002 to 2007. He began his professional career with Ernst & Young and then served as tax counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee in Washington, D.C. He returned to Portland and private practice in 1994. He has been named to the Oregon Super Lawyers list, a peer review recognition program, for the past three years.
Bateman, Seidel, Miner, Blomgren, Chellis & Gram announces that Amanda R. Guile has joined the firm as an associate attorney in litigation. Guile earned her J.D. from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2009, and is a 2006 graduate of Willamette University, with a bachelor's degree in politics and history.
Attorney and lobbyist Drew Hagedorn has joined Tonkon Torp as of counsel in the firm's government relations and public policy group. Hagedorn most recently was associated with the lobbying and public relations firm of Conkling, Fiskum & McCormick, where he served public and private sector clients, including nonprofits and industry associations. He has served as legal and policy adviser to the Oregon Senate majority office and Senate president's office. He also worked for U.S. Sen. Mark Hatfield in Washington, D.C. A graduate of the University of Southern California, Hagedorn earned his J.D. in 1999 from the Lewis & Clark law school.
Justin Aida, Angela Bennett, Dominic Carollo and Caitlin Upshaw have joined Dunn, Carney, Allen, Higgins & Tongue in Portland. Aida's practice focuses on corporate transactions, trademarks and employment law. He received his J.D. from University of Oregon College of Law and a bachelor's degree from University of California, Irvine. Bennett will focus on litigation, specifically insurance defense. She received her J.D. from Willamette University School of Law and a bachelor's degree from Gonzaga University. Carollo's practice will focus on litigation, specifically in agriculture and natural resources. He received his J.D. from Lewis & Clark Law School and his bachelor's degree from Oregon State University. Upshaw will focus on real estate law. She received her J. D. from Lewis & Clark Law School and her bachelor's degree from University of Oregon.
Tonkon Torp has elected Caroline Harris Crowne, Jackson Lewis and Alan C. Perkins to partnership, effective Jan. 1. Harris Crowne's practice focuses on litigation between business owners and cases with accounting issues. In addition, she has broad litigation experience in areas of law such as contracts, fiduciary duties, copyrights, damage to business property, employment and real estate. Last year, Harris Crowne was selected to serve as a special prosecutor in the Multnomah County district attorney's office in a month-long program giving civil litigators the opportunity to hone jury trial skills by prosecuting misdemeanors. Lewis is a member of the firm's wealth planning practice group, where he advises high net-worth clients on estate planning and charitable giving strategies and handles estate administration and probate litigation. He has significant experience advising private foundations and public charities on questions of fiduciary responsibility and compliance with federal and state nonprofit laws. He frequently addresses nonprofit associations and wealth planning professionals on developments in estate planning. Perkins is a member of the firm's immigration practice group, where he focuses on employment-based immigration matters. He was a corporate immigration lawyer for eight years in San Francisco with Cooley Godward, and most recently with Duane Morris. In 2008 and 2009, Perkins served on a national committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, which works with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services on policy and adjudication issues.
Howard N. Dietrich died Oct. 24, 2009 at the age of 99.
Dietrich was born March 2, 1910 in Spokane, Wash. In 1916, his family moved to Terrebonne, where they had a creamery distribution business. The family later moved to Central Point, Ore., where his family had an orchard farm and convenience store.
He graduated in 1928 from Central Point High School, where be lettered in basketball and baseball. After playing first base in semiprofessional baseball leagues, Dietrich attended University of Oregon, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in accounting in 1936.
While working in his first job at the Oregon State Tax Commission he met Mark Wald, a soon-to-be lifelong friend who encouraged him to go to law school. Dietrich attended night school at Northwestern School of Law, now the Lewis & Clark law school. In 1940, he was admitted to the Oregon State Bar and started his own accounting firm and law practice.
He represented many Prineville and eastern Oregon farming and ranching families and timber, lumber, plywood and molding companies, He retired from the accounting firm in 1970. He retired from the practice of law when he was 85.
In his professional career, he served on the part-time faculty of Northwestern School of Law and on many tax committees for both the Oregon Society and American Society of Certified Public Accountants. He also served on the tax and probate committees of the Oregon State Bar to help adopt probate and tax legislation. When his longtime friend Art Cannon died in 1964, he became president of the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants; he also served as president in 1965.
He was a Royal Rosarian, a member of the Aero Club and a founding and life member of the Prineville Golf and Country Club. He was a past board member and treasurer of Albertina Kerr Centers, where he was honored as an emeritus member of the board.
After he retired, he dedicated his efforts to philanthropy, helping the Boys and Girls Aid Society, the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Oregon, the Oregon Society of Certified Public Accountants Education Foundation, the Thomas Tongue III Scholarship Fund and the Gantenbein Society at the Northwestern School of Law Lewis & Clark College, the Albertina Kerr Endowment Fund, the University of Oregon accounting school and the Howard and Edna Dietrich Children's Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation.
Deitrich married Mary Edna Matthis of Salem in 1939. She died in 1992. In 1995, he married Margarette Newhall, who survives. He is also survived by his three children, nine grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.
Nancy Bergeson, a federal public defender in Portland, died Nov. 24, 2009, as the result of a homicide. She was 57.
Nancy Sue Bergeson was born Nov. 30, 1951, in Logan, Utah. Her family settled in Newport Beach, Calif., and in 1969, she left for college in Utah. She obtained degrees in special education from the University of Utah, and after several years of teaching special education, she obtained her law degree in 1980 from the S.J. Quinney School of Law.
After serving in the Salt Lake public defender's office, she moved to Portland in 1991 and began an 18-year career at the federal public defender's office.
Throughout her life, Bergeson was always willing to charge head-on into the toughest of situations. She was bold and passionate in what she did; arguing challenging issues with equal fervor both in the courtroom and at the dinner table. Bergeson believed that the true test of a justice system was how it treated the most vulnerable. Bergeson fought on behalf of the powerless and less fortunate. She excelled with a keen sense of humor, never afraid to laugh at herself.
In a tribute to her in Multnomah Lawyer, federal public defender Steven Wax described Bergeson as a "remarkable lawyer" and defense advocate. "She was a remarkable person, and she had the ability to push her adversaries … to the edge and beyond, but in a way in which everyone could still not only respect but love her," Wax said.
Later in life, Bergeson discovered a passion for athletics through the sport of dragon boat racing. She traveled the world to Germany, Australia, Malaysia and Prague, winning multiple awards in international competitions. She was also an ardent runner and skier.
Bergeson is survived by her daughter, Jamie Bergeson of Boston, her parents, and many nieces and nephews
Doug Gard died Dec. 7, 2009 in Medford.
Doug S. Gard was born on Jan. 21, 1954 in Berkeley, Calif. He graduated from the University of California and the University of New Mexico Law School. While living in New Mexico, he suffered a severe accident, which left him a quadriplegic, confined to a wheelchair. His entire legal career existed from this perspective, but no lawyer who went up against him ever considered him handicapped.
Gard worked for legal services in Medford from 1982 until 1997, and then in private practice in Medford from 1997 until his death. Throughout his career, he continued to raise the bar of quality in the practice of law, particularly in the fields of landlord tenant and consumer protection law. His friends described him as "the epitome of professionalism." Writes Circuit Court Judge Philip Arnold: "His ability to be the rigorous advocate while dealing with his daily difficulties of getting to the office and to the courthouse inspired lawyers, judges and litigants. And, he did it all with a smile and a pleasant attitude. In addition to the admiration for his legal skills, Jackson County lawyers and courthouse personnel often used the words 'admire' and 'inspiration' when referring to Doug. Although his life was short, it was exceedingly well lived."
Gard was the father of two and the grandfather of one. He is also survived by his mother and a brother.
Retired trial lawyer and arbitrator Norm Lindstedt died Dec. 13, 2009. He was 78.
Norman Lowell Lindstedt was born Nov. 12, 1931, in Portland. He attended Beach Grade School and graduated from Jefferson High School in 1949, University of Oregon in 1953 and Northwestern College of Law at Lewis & Clark in 1958. He married Merrinell Merrigan on Nov. 24, 1951.
Lindstedt worked in law for 50 years as a trial attorney, judge pro tem (Multnomah County Circuit Court) and as an arbitrator. He had his own law firm and practiced arbitration and mediation until retirement.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, four daughters, 10 grandchildren, two great-grandchildren and two brothers.
Robert M. Redding, a retired captain in the U.S. Navy, died Dec. 21, 2009 of complications of Alzheimer's disease.
Redding became a member of the Oregon State Bar in 1957. He retired from the Judge Advocate General's Corp in 1982, having served the last eight years of service as a circuit judge. He had made his home in Coronado, Calif., since 1984.
Redding is survived by his wife of 51 years, Marjorie (Sue), three sons and seven grandchildren.
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Special Report Calls Trump a Liar
Friday night Special Report with Bret Baier featured A. B. Stoddard and Charles Krauthammer both stating categorically that Trump's allegation of being spied on is false. Stoddard is the Liberal on the panel, altering with Mara Liasson of NPR as the balance of the "Fair and Balanced" claim on FOX.
Stoddard, a child of privilege and a member of the 1%, rolled her eyes and called Trump an "international embarrassment," accused him of levelling false allegations and threatening America's alliances and international order. She then instructed Trump on how he should act:
"The job [of President] requires something else. Every word matters, every action, the conduct of your staff, it's not to be blown off."
She longs for the day when the media set the national conversation and created the limits of permissible discourse. Which, of course, is exactly the reason that Trump is President. The media and it's bastard offspring no longer rule the public discourse except in those dark Blue spots in a deep Red country.
The media is getting hysterical about Trump's failure to retract or hunker down when they attack. That's what they are accustomed to from Republicans and they are deeply angry that Trump is not following the script.
Charles Krauthammer, who usually provides center-Right analysis, stated categorically that:
"It's a farce, you know, the idea that everyone in this town – the media – the agencies – the congress – are running around chasing their tails on a story that everyone knows it's not true, but having to pretend that it might be because he's the President when we know how it's going to end."
This is absurd.
There is absolutely no way that either of these media personalities know that Trump was not under surveillance and that his team's conversations were not recorded. They can't possibly know and are making an assumption based on nothing except the desire to believe that the Obama administration would never do that. The same administration that weaponized the IRS to go after the Tea Party. The same administration that created Fast and Furious so that Mexican drug cartels would have access to American guns, "proving" that American's ability to buy guns was a danger to the world. The same administration that brazenly lied to get Obamacare passed. An administration that appointed a guy who supported the Communist Party as head of the CIA and who who lied to congress about the extent to which the American people are spied on.
Stoddard and Krauthammer had three choices: (1) believe Trump, (2) use reason and logic, or (3) believe the Deep State. They have chosen the latter and have shown themselves willfully blind.
What's impossible to believe that here was no surveillance – of Team Trump or people his team was speaking to. If there was no surveillance we have to conclude that the press lied instead of passing along "leaks" from the Deep State. We have to believe that they made up stories out of whole cloth and lied about those "Trump and his people are tied to the Russians" stories. It's possible, the mainstream press has done it before. But it's usually done by one author making up stories like Jason Blair who fabricated a series of stories for the NY Times. We are unaware of multiple media organs promoting the same story using the same unnamed intelligence sources where all the reporters are lying about what they were told. The NY Times and the Washington Post are not running any stories backing off their earlier claims that electronic surveillance showed that Team Trump was in contact with the Russians. These papers are writing as if these revelations prove that Russia was behind the Trump victory. Of course the stories prove no such thing, but they do prove that the intelligence community is feeding information to the press. So both Stoddard and Krauthammer are accusing the largest American media organs of lying.
It's absurd.
Second, the explanation given by Judge Andrew Napolitano is logically consistent. His claim is that British Intelligence has access to NSA intercepts. He accused Team Obama of going to GCHQ to get information from NSA about NSA records of Team trump conversations ... intercepted by NSA. There is no accusation that GCHQ spied on Team Trump. There has been no denial that GCHQ and NSA share information. The British denial is pro-forma and as dismissible as our head of intelligence stating that the NSA does not have records on Americans; a lie.
Why would Team Obama take that route? Simple, it does not leave legal trails, no FISA requests, no court orders. Spooks talking to spooks don't leave a paper trail; but perhaps they should.
The reason that people like Stoddard and Krauthammer claim that Trump lied is the same reason that neither one of them believed during the campaign that Trump would be elected. He's just not the kind of person they see in the role of American President. Even now, months after the inauguration, they are denying his legitimacy. Stoddard refuses to believe a President who acts like Trump is real or legitimate. She wants the President to act like her Central Casting's image of a president. They deny he's the President and deny his very rational assertions that his conversations and that of his aides were recorded and disseminated to the news media in an attempt to attack him and impugn his legitimacy.
Meanwhile, anchor Bret Baier fell all over himself to make it crystal clear that Fox News is trying to put as much distance as possible between himself and Andrew Napolitano. The word may have come down from on-high - Rupert Murdoch - or it may have been a desire by Baier or the news department to avoid anything that could conceivably be reported by Breitbart, Limbaugh or any other Conservative organ.
If Fox and Baier wants to get the approval of the MFM they are going about it the wrong way. The Left is busy purging its ranks and any attempt by Fox News personalities to appear impartial is doomed. Just as in the Soviet Union in the 1930s the old Bolsheviks were tried and executed by a purer, newer strain. The Left's defenestration of it's own leaves no room for cooperation with anyone to the right of Obama.
Too bad. I like Baier and his panel, but news and politics is now divided into enemy camps in this country. Especially in the news industry, that there is no longer any hope that a middle ground can be found. At this point, every source is suspect and everyone is under suspicion for "deviation-ism."
Nothing is certain except what you know personally and the press' talking heads like Stoddard and - occasionally - Krauthhammer are talking through their asses. But the nice thing about being in the press is you believed that, like a doctor, you simply bury your mistakes and go on as if nothing happened.
Unfortunately, the Internet never forgets.
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Elizabeth Nichols Dyar (1751-June 4, 1818) was a New England woman living during the American Revolution, who was married to patriot and war hero Joseph Dyar. She is best known for her role in the Boston Tea Party, in which she along two other women, mixed and applied paint to the men in order to disguise them as Mohawk Indians.

Family life
Elizabeth Nichols Dyar was born in 1751 in Malden, Massachusetts. On May 2, 1771, at the age of twenty Elizabeth married Joseph Dyar. Joseph was born in England in 1747. In his youth he came to the American Colonies and became a sea captain, sailing from Boston in the foreign trade industry. The pair went on to have seven children: Joseph 1st, who died in infancy; Joseph 2nd; James; Elizabeth; John Nichols; Ebenezer, and Sally. Their son John Nichols Dyar, born in Malden, MA, became the first settler in the town of Freeman, ME

Role in the Revolutionary War

In 1763 The Dyars lived in a neighborhood in Boston's North End, and were active and respected members of the community. Elizabeth's husband Joseph Dyar was a member of the revolutionary organization Sons of Liberty, a group whose goal was to advance the rights of the European colonists and to fight taxation by the British government. The turning point that got Elizabeth involved in the fight against the British was the Tea Act. Like most women of her time Dyar was an active tea drinker who stated tea is "the cup that cheers but not inebriates." For Elizabeth the Tea Act was the final push, she joined her husband in the protest against the British Government.

On December 16, 1773, Joseph Dyar and other members of Sons of Liberty gathered in the kitchen of the Dyars home where the 22 year old Elizabeth and two other Daughters of Liberty prepared and applied stains and paint to the faces and bodies of the men to transform them into Mohawk Indians. After the men boarded ships in Boston Harbor and destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company.

Before Joseph left on that fateful night, Elizabeth had one request:  that he bring her a handful of tea.  When he returned home he produced the handful of tea and dashed it into the fire.  He raged that not even she would partake of the tea."

Following the Boston Tea Party, the British occupied the city of Boston. Friends and family members of the Dyars feared for their safety during this time, since they believed that if their involvement in the Tea Party was found out, their lives could be endangered. So in order to protect her children, Elizabeth with the help of friends was able to smuggle herself and her children across British lines in an butcher cart, to safety to stay at her childhood home in Malden, Massachusetts.

While Elizabeth focused on taking care of her family during the following years leading up to and during the war, Joseph engaged in the war by smuggling supplies for the American Army across the colonies. Joseph was captured a total nine times by the British during the course of the war. The last time being stripped, flogged, and deprived of food for three days. In his weakened condition he died in 1783 from the effects of his capture. His body was returned to his family and buried in Malden.

After the Revolution

Following the end of war and the death of her husband, Elizabeth moved to Maine (which was a territory of Massachusetts at the time) with her son John, his wife, and family. John bought 600 acre tract of land in Freeman, ME. Where he built a large colonial mansion sized home, called "Prospect Farm". At the Farm Elizabeth lived out the rest of her life till her death on June 4, 1818.

Remembrance

Her role in helping to boycott the Tea Act has made her a popular figure in the women's organization the Daughters of the American Revolution. In which several chapters around the country are named after Dyar. In the September 1923 the Colonel Asa Whitcomb Chapter of the DAR in Kingfield, Maine, made a formal memorial in her honor. The Tablet reads on her memorial:
TO COMMEMORATE THE PATRIOTISM OF

ELIZABETH NICHOLS DYAR

ONE OF THREE YOUNG WOMEN
WHO MIXED AND APPLIED THE PAINT
TO DISGUISE AS INDIANS
THE MEN OF THE BOSTON TEA PARTY
DECEMBER 16, 1773
WITH HER CHILDREN SHE WAS SMUGGLED
THROUGH THE LINES TO MALDEN
PASSED LATTER PART OF LIFE HERE
WITH YOUNGEST SON, JOHN NICHOLS DYAR
ON PROSPECT FARM
AND WAS BURIED ON THIS SPOT.

ALSO HER HUSBAND

JOSEPH DYAR

WHO WAS NINE TIMES CAPTURED BY THE BRITISH
WHILE CAPTAIN OF BOAT
CARRYING SUPPLIES TO AMERICAN ARMY
DIED FROM EFFECT OF ILL TREATMENT IN 1783
AND WAS BURIED IN MALDEN, MASS.

THIS GRAVE RESTORED BY THEIR DESCENDANTS,
TOWN OF FREEMAN,
AND COLONEL ASA WHITCOMB CHAPTER
OF KINGFIELD, SEPTEMBER 1923.

TABLET PLACED BY THE MAINE STATE COUNCIL
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
JULY 1924.

References
 "Elizabeth Dyar History". Colonial Daughters Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Farmington, Maine. Accessed on June 1, 2021.https://https://www.mainedar.org/chapter/colonialdaughters/dyarbiography.htmll

 Jenney, A Harriet. "The Elizabeth Dyar Chapter". Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine. Vol 23. United States: National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, 1903.

 Labaree, Benjamin Woods. The Boston Tea Party. Northeastern classics ed. Northeastern University Press, 1964.

 Norton, Mary Beth. Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750-1800: with a New Preface. United Kingdom: Cornell University Press, 1996.

 S. Jay Kleinberg, Vicki L. Ruiz, and Eileen Boris. "3. From Daughters of Liberty to Women of the Republic: American Women in the Era of the American Revolution." In The Practice of U.S. Women's History : Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues. Rutgers University Press, 2007.

 "Oldest House in Franklin County." Sprague's Journal of Maine History; Vol 11. page 33. Androscoggin Historical Society, 1914.

 U.S Congress, Senate."28th Report of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution". 69th Congress, 1st session. United States: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1926.

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1751 births
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Noise and vibration, in an industrial contest, essentially concern the product, the rotating machinery for power generation, power transmission, pneumofore machinery, production lines, and much more.
The appearance of "noise" is seen normally in two respects: the exposure of workers and acoustic emissions for the certification of the product.
Worker exposure is a well-defined task and goals are easily described, it is necessary a "Sound Level Meter" and the skill of the technician, is also need a "Vibrometer" to evaluate the risk of whole body vibrations or hand- arm.
Everything regarding the machinery instead presents an enormous series of applications, starting from the certification requests and targets for acoustic emissions, arising from vibrational phenomena, both for the Directive machines, and for the quality of the prodoto or component. In fact, talking of noise reduction on machinery, or diagnostics of malfunctions, means that each machine has to be studied at the level of the individual component.
Among the most demanding applications there is the sound power ISO 374x (microphones) or ISO 9614 (intensity) and the availability of acoustic rooms for testing; instrumental solutions include systems DT9837A or ECON Avant 4 to 16 channels.
The vibrations of the rotating machines can be measured and analyzed both with dedicated tools for predictive maintenance type RION the VA-12, or with PC-based systems such as portable 4-channel DT9837A, or ECON Multichannel systems (up to over 1000 channels) to perform on-line monitoring and modal analysis.


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Did Christ Die For All Mankind? – Part 1 (Understanding The Gospel of Salvation)
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The Urban Apologetics Challenge (A Ministry Ending Game of Truth)
[table id=1 /] Will the Urban Apologist community be the Christians they claim to be and show integrity with this challenge, or will they continue to lie and dodge the evidence? Let's find out. Please like and share so the world can hold them accountable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87_zD4UMsIM Please Take A Moment To Share If you enjoyed this study, please take a moment to click the button below and share it. Thanks in advance. [fblike] [table id=2 /] [table id=10 /] [TABS_R id=4805]
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[table id=1 /] The Bible gives us a very specific timeframe as to when Israel would be enslaved. It is because of this timeframe that we can eliminate several occurrences of slavery throughout history as the fulfillment of the prophecy given to Abraham in Genesis 15:13-14. Unfortunately, many of the teachers that speak on the subject have an agenda to prove that the slavery mentioned in Genesis is anything other than the Transatlantic Slave Trade. Join me as we explore even more evidence that not only is the negro the Israelite of the Bible, but that no other group could…
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"I Started Howling Laughing!" Julia Louis-Dreyfus Tells Dax Shepard How She Reacted to News She Had Breast Cancer Just After She Won an Emmy
In 2017, actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus had just been awarded an Emmy for her role in the HBO series "Veep" and was on a roll with her career when a breast cancer diagnosis shocked her.
Now, several years, six rounds of chemotherapy, and a final season of "Veep" later, Louis-Dreyfus' cancer is in remission, and the star has returned to work.
Hoorah! Great doctors, great results, feeling happy and ready to rock after surgery. Hey cancer, "Fuck you!" Here's my first post-op photo.
A post shared by Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@officialjld) on Feb 14, 2018 at 10:40am PST
This week, Louis-Dreyfus spoke during an in-depth interview on the podcast, "Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard," during which she reflected on her cancer journey, from the initial diagnosis to the way her cancer shaped her perspectives.
The 58-year-old "Seinfeld" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" star told Shepard that the timing of her breast cancer diagnosis was almost comedic; it came the morning directly after her Emmy award.
"I will admit to you I started howling laughing," Louis-Dreyfus said. "It's hilarious," she says. "You got a trophy in one hand and a cancer diagnosis [in the other]. It's incredible."
Louis-Dreyfus received her breast cancer diagnosis the morning after she won an Emmy for "Outstanding Lead Actress" in the HBO series, "Veep."
As the actress made appearances at various parties leading Emmys, she told Shepard, she was "on autopilot." Her doctor had told her that she should prepare for bad news at the time of her biopsy on the Friday before the Emmys, and she struggled to focus on the Emmy awards as she awaited the results.
"I don't remember any of it," she said of the Emmys. "And then the next morning I got the call that it was, in fact, cancer."
Following her diagnosis, Louis-Dreyfus went public with the news, announcing on Twitter, "1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I'm the one."
Just when you thought… pic.twitter.com/SbtYChwiEj
— Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@OfficialJLD) September 28, 2017
She expressed gratitude for her health insurance and supportive network of family and friends, but also acknowledged that not all people with breast cancer are as lucky as she was. "Let's all fight cancers and make universal healthcare a reality," she wrote.
Louis-Dreyfus also spoke with Shepard about the way cancer shaped her perspective. As she maintained her famous sarcastic sense of humor throughout her treatment (at one point she referred to her chemo infusion as an "awesome X-mas cocktail" in an Instagram post), the actress also said she cycled through "panic" and "true fear," to a valuable perspective shift.
Getting ready for the holidays with my awesome Xmas cocktail. #jollytransfusion #ivebeengood
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Louis-Dreyfus said she began to feel tremendous gratitude for those she loves—including her supportive husband, comedian and director, Brad Hall, known for his former role on Saturday Night Live.
"Together we've been bound to one another and we just carry on," she said of Hall. "And he takes pride in my success. Without him in my life and my children, you can forget about it in terms of the trajectory of my life. Because this is all very important to me—my career and being an actor—but it hasn't been the most important to me, and I think that's what has made it work. I had a really solid place to be without it."
Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Brad Hall have been married since 1987. (Portrait by Leslie Hassler.)
We've heard from many survivors who say their cancer diagnoses brought them clarity—especially in terms of their relationships, and realizing who matters most to them.
"Cancer is the great revealer, in a way, of peoples' true character," breast cancer survivor Amy Grantham recently told SurvivorNet. "I very quickly learned who was really there in my life and who was just kind of on the outskirts of it when it was good for them or convenient for them. And it cut right through to the people that are most important in my life."
And when it comes to beating cancer, experts have told us that maintaining gratitude during cancer can make a big difference.
"They're grateful, not for cancer, but they're grateful for an opportunity to know that life is finite [and] appreciate it for one of the first times ever because they know it may not be forever that they get to do this," Dr. Zuri Murrell, a colorectal surgeon at Cedars-Sinai medical center told SurvivorNet in a previous conversation about the importance of attitude during a cancer journey. "Those are the patients that tend to do well with processing and also living a long, long life despite a diagnosis."
Louis-Dreyfus and Hall have two sons, Henry and Charlie Hall.
Louis-Dreyfus, who told Shepard that her husband is "a really steadfast, strong, morally centered person," is one such example of the type of person Dr. Murrell described. While her proactive visit to the doctor led to an early detection, making her breast cancer easier to treat (Louis-Dreyfus shared that her breast cancer was not found during a routine mammogram, but rather, after she noticed a concerning "divot" in her breast), her attitude certainly played into her ability not only to survive her cancer—but also to continue really living in spite of it.
The final season of "Veep," which was filmed after a short break that Louis-Dreyfus took for her chemotherapy, aired this past March, and the actress told Shepard that the show has been the career accomplishment she is "most proud of."
"Talk about a lens changer," Louis-Dreyfus said. "Everything [else] falls off. Everything. Everything that is precious becomes clear."
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The Emmy®-nominated host of Real Time with Bill Maher performs an all-new hour of stand-up comedy before a live audience. Among the topics Bill discusses in his ninth HBO solo special are: Whether the "Great Recession" is really over; the fake patriotism of the right wing; what goes on in the mind of a terrorist; why Obama needs a posse instead of the secret service; the drug war; Michael Jackson; getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan; racism; the Teabagger movement; religion; the health-care fight; why Gov. Mark Sanford will come out looking good, and how silly it is to ask "Why do men cheat?"; and why comedy most definitely didn't die when George Bush left office.


Solderer, Alex; Kaufmann, Manuela; Hofer, Deborah; Wiedemeier, Daniel; Attin, Thomas; Schmidlin, Patrick R (2019). Efficacy of chlorhexidine rinses after periodontal or implant surgery: a systematic review. Clinical Oral Investigations, 23(1):21-32.
Biofilm management and infection control are essential after periodontal and implant surgery. In this context, chlorhexidine (CHX) mouth-rinses are frequently recommended post-surgically. Despite its common use and many studies in this field, a systematic evaluation of the benefits after periodontal or implant surgery is-surprisingly-still missing.
To evaluate the benefits of chlorhexidine rinsing after periodontal or implant surgery in terms of plaque and inflammation reduction potential. Furthermore, to screen whether the concentration changes or additives in CHX solutions reduce side effects associated with its use.
A systematic literature search was performed for clinical trials, which compared CHX rinsing after periodontal or implant surgery with rinsing using placebo, non-staining formulations, or solutions with reduced concentrations of the active compound. Four databases (Medline, PubMed, Embase, Cochrane) were searched up to June 2018. Two reviewers independently identified and screened the literature.
From 691 titles identified, only eleven publications met the inclusion criteria and were finally included. Mainly early publications assessed the benefits of CHX over placebo rinsing, whereas more recent publications focused more on the evaluation of new formulations with regard to effectiveness and side effects. The use of CHX after surgery showed in general significant reduction in plaque (means of 29-86% after 1 week) and bleeding (up to 73%) as compared to placebo. No consensus, however, was found regarding the most beneficial CHX formulation avoiding side effects.
Chlorhexidine rinsing helps to reduce biofilm formation and gingival inflammation after surgery. However, no additional reduction of periodontal probing depth over any given placebo or control solution could be found irrespective of whether CHX was used or not. The use of additives such as antidiscoloration systems (ADS) or herbal extracts may reduce side effects while retaining efficacy.
Within the limitations of this review, it can be concluded that CHX may represent a valuable chemo-preventive tool immediately after surgery, during the time period in which oral hygiene capacity is compromised. To reduce the side effects of CHX and maintain comparable clinical effects, rinsing with less concentrated formulations (e.g., 0.12%) showed the most promising results so far.
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The National Administration for the Protection of State Secrets (NAPSS) announced that information about the number of fatalities caused by natural disasters will no longer be a state secret, according to a September 12 Xinhua article. A NAPSS spokesperson told a joint NAPSS and Ministry of Civil Affairs news conference that releasing this information would benefit disaster prevention and relief work, according to the report. Therefore, the relevant provisions of the "Rules on State Secrets and the Scope of Their Classification in Civil Affairs Work" were annulled, the spokesperson said.
Death from natural calamities used to be taboo among government officials. Analysts think that under a planned economy, from [the] early 1950s to late 1970s, the Communist Party of China feared that exposing death figures could tarnish its image, draw blame from the public, or trigger social turmoil. On July 28, 1976, the country witnessed the devastating Tangshan earthquake in north China's Hebei province. However, the report of a 240,000 death toll was only released three years later. But the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) , in 2003 has driven the government to become more transparent.
While this development is an encouraging sign, all news media in China remain subject to government prior restraints on who may publish and who may engage in journalism, as well as an extensive screening system for politically sensitive news.


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Poets and Poems: Mischa Willett and "Phases"
In his new collection Phases, poet Mischa Willett reaches back to the distant past of classical antiquity and the recent past of old girlfriends and a father recovering from heart surgery, to paintings and sculpture, to a young child asking about the inequality of large and small cars. While that sounds like a diverse array of subjects and inspirations, Willett ties these 60 poems together with a few deep, resounding themes and perspectives.
A glance at the table of contents reveals one of those perspectives—the geography of the collection. Willett has structured the poems into nine sections: oceans, lands, seas, and an island. This geography is specific: "Ocean of Storms," "Sea Has Become Known," "Land of Heat," and so on. We navigate this geography, and it is sometimes calm and reflective, and sometimes stormy and disruptive.
Not all stormy poems are loud, however. Here is a softer one from the "Ocean of Storms" section.
On Dante
I thought about those green
beans and onions all day
after having rejected them
for more orange chicken
on my weekend trip to the mall.
The regret eats me indelicately.
How differently…
Now I'll blow around
like street trees: pretty, but
roots not deep enough to reach
the good water.
I rerun the movie
of you driving through
the night alone, and all
night long.
A poem about regret starts with bad diet choices but quickly becomes a story of a lost relationship. And it happens so suddenly that what is almost missed is that bad decisions can be made in both food and relationships, especially those relationships that look solid ("pretty") but don't have the roots for long-term sustenance.
Mischa Willett
In the Notes section at the end, Willett says this about the poem: "Regret takes many forms, does it not? Blows out all proportions. The Italian poet Dante Alighieri knew something about how it eats you up."
The Notes section is not to be overlooked. Some notes provide short background information on a poem and its origin, some explain certain terms, and some are wry observations. These are not the footnotes you're accustomed to.
Willett teaches English at Seattle Pacific University. He specializes in 19th century British poetry and also teaches Shakespeare, C.S. Lewis and the Inklings, and creative writing. He received his B.A. degree from Wheaton College, his M.A. degree from Northern Arizona University, and his M.F.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Washington.
Phases is a new volume in Wipf and Stock's Poiema Poetry Series. It's also the poet's first collection; several of the poems have been previously published in literary journals. The poems cover history and technology, art and heartache. They're filled with flashes of insight and understanding. It's a brilliant collection, and I don't often use the word "brilliant."
Related: Mischa Willetts reads "Mnemonic Influence"
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How to Read a Poem uses images like the mouse, the hive, the switch (from the Billy Collins poem)—to guide readers into new ways of understanding poems. Anthology included.
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Bethany Rohde says
Effective opening lines:
They're working on me in a similar way. It was still morning when I first read this, so I wasn't in the mood to think about steamed veggies. But now I keep ruminating, about a speaker who keeps ruminating, about the produce he passed up.
Intersting how he does his Notes section, I'd like to see that.
Glynn says
It's like a footnotes section, like you would see in a non-fiction work. He's annotating the poems — and all poems come from somewhere.
I like how he titled this and then referenced Dante in his notes to give me more to think about. Liked hearing him read, too.
I really enjoyed this collection.
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