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Advising the Grand Jury Witness
Providing representation to an individual who has received a federal grand jury subpoena can be one of the most treacherous responsibilities facing counsel. The wrong advice can result in a witness becoming a target, or it can leave a person who otherwise had no criminal exposure facing indictment for perjury.
A typical scenario. One night, you receive a phone call from Carroll Lewis, the president of Wrongway Construction, the largest building contractor in Sea Breeze, Arizona. He has just received a subpoena commanding his appearance before a federal grand jury in less than a week. You meet him at your office. He has no idea why he received the subpoena. What's more, he is supposed to travel to his son's college graduation, and he wasn't planning to be in town on the day he is scheduled to appear. You tell him that you probably won't have a problem getting his appearance postponed and that you will speak to the prosecutor and find out what this is about.
When you speak to the prosecutor, you learn that the government has information that various members of the county commission received bribes to award contracts for the construction of the county commission building. Although she has no specific information that Lewis paid any bribes, Wrongway is one of the prime contractors on the project. If Lewis has something to say, now is the time for him to say it.
A common problem. Advising a client who has been invited to speak to a prosecutor requires defense counsel to make critical decisions at a time when the least is known about the government's case and the tools available to uncover the needed information are limited. Ironically, the person who may have the most knowledge is often the least helpful. The client may be unwilling or unable to tell you everything that he or she knows. Yet, counsel must conduct as complete a debriefing of the client as possible.
In our example, you should meet with your client once you have convinced the prosecutor to postpone the appearance. Explain that he should gather any documents generated in the course of bidding on the county building. Tell him you need to know about his relationships with the various county commissioners, and ask him to locate any correspondence or other documents that may reflect meetings or communications with county commissioners or others working on their behalf. Finally, get the documents before your meetings with the client so that you can be prepared to ask specific questions and to use the materials to refresh your client's recollection.
Even if your client has been very helpful, it is never too early to begin your own investigation of the government's allegations. Check the newspapers and the local TV stations for any reports on the county commission. Bribery allegations may have surfaced first in an investigation of an unrelated project. Call some of your colleagues in the defense bar. See who represents the county commissioners, call them, and ask if they would be willing to share with you what they know about the grand jury investigation. Have your investigator go to the building and code department and obtain a list of all the contractors on the project. When you meet with Lewis, have him tell you what he knows about each contractor. If he has knowledge of anyone else paying bribes to the commissioners, you need to know about it.
The story continues. You ask whether Lewis bribed any of the commissioners to get the contract for the county commission building. He adamantly denies that he did. When you ask if there is any reason why someone would accuse him of making such a bribe, he tells you that several years ago he bid on a contract to build a high school. He got the contract after agreeing to hire the granddaughter of the chair of the school board. Flash forward several years and Lewis is at a fund-raiser for a county commissioner who mentions that his nephew is job hunting and might be stopping by Wrongway. Two weeks before the contract for the county commission building is awarded, your client meets with the nephew, who is working toward a degree in construction management from one of the top programs in the country. Lewis tells him to stop by after he graduates. Two weeks later Lewis gets the contract.
Determining a client's exposure. After reviewing the Hobbes Act, you are pretty sure that a crime was committed when Wrongway received the school board contract, but that there is insufficient evidence of any wrongdoing in regard to the county commission project. Fortunately, the statute of limitations has expired on the school board contract. Nevertheless, you are a cautious lawyer and you don't want Lewis to admit to anything without a grant of immunity. But even after you have explained the elements of the offense and the possible sentence, Lewis insists on speaking to the prosecutor without a grant of immunity.
At this point there are two things you must do. First, explain what will happen when he meets with the prosecutor and later goes before the grand jury. Second, dictate a memo for your file, memorializing the fact that your client has decided to speak to the prosecutor without any immunity and that this decision was against your advice.
Getting your client's testimony. When he emerges from the grand jury room, Lewis is visibly shaken. Despite your best efforts, you cannot squeeze any details from him. You must find out what he said, but you can't rely on your client or the prosecutor for the information. In In Re Grand Jury, the Circuit Court for the District of Columbia held that witnesses were entitled to review the transcript of their grand jury testimony. In that case, the government issued multiple grand jury subpoenas for two employees. One employee wanted to review his prior testimony before his fourth appearance and the other before his second appearance. When the government refused to disclose it, defense counsel moved to compel production. The district court denied the motion. The court of appeals reversed. The district court denied their requests, finding that they had failed to demonstrate a particularized and compelling need that outweighed the interests in maintaining grand jury secrecy. The court of appeals held that no such test applies to witnesses who seek only to review their own testimony. The court noted that grand jury secrecy is intended to protect the witness. Consequently, it was the witness's privilege whether to reveal what he said. Reasons to prevent third parties from learning what a witness said simply do not make sense in the context of witnesses who want to review their own testimony. Moreover, the witness has a significant interest in ensuring that the testimony he or she gave was accurate and completely truthful.
Although other courts have denied witnesses access to their testimony absent a showing of particularized need, most of these decisions are 30 years old, and the presence of conflicts among the circuits makes this issue worthy of rehearing or petition for certiorari. The first step is for lawyers to seek disclosure of their client's testimony in every instance.
In the example of Mr. Lewis, the transcript reveals he was asked about every state and municipal contract Wrongway bid on over the previous ten years—and in every instance Lewis answered "I don't recall." Is he facing perjury charges for evading the questions? Should you ask to go back before the grand jury to clarify his answers? Will that make things even worse? These questions are beyond the scope of this article—but at least you know what you're up against. We cannot always save our clients from their own folly, but we have an obligation to do everything we can to prevent them from putting themselves in greater jeopardy.
For More Information About the Criminal Justice Section
- This article is an abridged and edited version of one that originally appeared on page 16 of Criminal Justice, Spring 2008 (23:1).
- For more information or to obtain a copy of the periodical in which the full article appears, please call the ABA Service Center at 800/285-2221.
- Website: www.abanet.org/crimjust.
- Periodicals: Criminal Justice, quarterly magazine; Criminal Justice Newsletter, three times per year; White Collar Crime Newsletter, three times per year (electronic).
- Books and Other Recent Publications: Trial Tactics; Street Legal; The Citizenship Flowchart; The State of Criminal Justice; Leapholes (fiction); Achieving Justice: Freeing the Innocent, Convicting the Guilty; ABA Standards for Criminal Justice; Annual Survey of Supreme Court Decisions; Asset Forfeiture: Practice and Procedure in State and Federal Courts; Child Witness in Criminal Cases; The Criminal Lawyer's Guide to Immigration Law: Questions and Answers; Fourth Amendment Handbook, 2d ed.; Juvenile Justice Standards, Annotated; The Shadow of Justice (fiction); A Portable Guide to Federal Conspiracy Law: Tactics and Strategies for Criminal and Civil Cases; Practice Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; Restitution for Crime Victims: A National Strategy; Successive Criminal Prosecutions: The Dual Sovereignty Exception to Double Jeopardy in State and Federal Courts.
Jon May is a lawyer in Miami, Florida, where he practices white-collar criminal defense. He may be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's government on Friday played down talk of a military coup ahead of a planned "shutdown" of the capital next week by protesters trying to overthrow Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and said life would go on much as normal.
Foreign Minister Surapong Tovichakchaikul said it was alarmist of the U.S. embassy to advise its citizens on Friday to stock up on two weeks' supply of food and water ahead of what protest leaders say will be a prolonged siege of Bangkok.
"Maybe they worry too much ... People will live their normal life. Don't be afraid of things that will happen because we try to control the situation," he said.
Demonstrators led by former opposition politician Suthep Thaugsuban aim to paralyze the capital for between 15 and 20 days by blocking seven main intersections, causing gridlock in a city clogged with traffic at the best of times.
The turmoil is the latest episode in an eight-year conflict that pits Bangkok's middle class and royalist establishment against the mostly poorer, rural supporters of Yingluck and her brother, former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that he had spoken with Yingluck and the leader of the opposition Democrat Party, Abhisit Vejjajiva, during the past few days in a bid to help them bridge their differences.
"I am very concerned that the situation could escalate in the days ahead, particularly next Monday ... when protestors said they will shut down Bangkok," Ban told reporters. "I urge all involved to show restraint, avoid provocative acts and settle their differences peacefully, through dialogue."
The protesters want to suspend what they say is a fragile democracy destabilized by Thaksin, whom they accuse of nepotism and corruption. They want to eradicate the political influence of his family by altering electoral arrangements in ways they have not spelt out, along with other political reforms.
Thaksin was ousted by the military in 2006 and sentenced to jail in absentia for abuse of power in 2008 but he still looms large over Thai politics, the dominant force behind his sister's administration from his self-exile in Dubai.
The authorities say they will deploy more than 14,000 troops and police on Monday, including police at the main airport, to maintain order in the streets.
Rumors of an impending coup have intensified. The army has staged or attempted 18 coups in 81 years of on-off democracy, but it has tried to remain neutral this time and its chief, Prayuth Chan-ocha, has publicly refused to take sides.
The government has repeatedly played down talk of a military intervention but said on Friday if there was one, it would counter it. "We already have a plan ...," said Surapong, offering no elaboration.
He said the government would operate during the shutdown from backup locations at the national police headquarters and at an army base in the north of Bangkok.
He said Yingluck would not relocate her government to other provinces. She heads a caretaker cabinet after calling a snap election in December. The opposition Democrat Party has said it will boycott the election.
Polling is set for February 2, but the Election Commission said on Friday the government should consider pushing back the date.
It said some candidates had been unable to register in 28 districts in the south - a stronghold of the anti-Thaksin protesters - and that could delay the reopening of parliament if there were not enough lawmakers elected to meet the quorum of 95 percent of the seats in the house.
The protesters have rejected the election, demanding that the government step down to be replaced by an unelected "people's council".
The courts may play a part in forcing the government out, as legal cases are building up against Yingluck and her allies.
The country's anti-corruption body pressed charges on Tuesday against 308 lawmakers, mostly from her Puea Thai party, for trying to make the Senate a fully elected chamber, which a court ruled illegal in November.
Puea Thai officials have expressed concern the government's enemies might be plotting a judicial coup and accuse the courts of bias. They say they are alarmed at the speed with which such matters are being processed, in contrast to cases against opposition figures, including protest leader Suthep, that have languished in the courts for years.
"They (the protesters) want to grab power unconstitutionally ... but the Constitutional Court ruled that there was no case (to answer against that)," Deputy Prime Minister Pongthep Thepkanchana told foreign media on Friday.
"In this Constitutional Court there are some judges ... who had an explicit role against the government in 2006," he added, referring to when Thaksin was toppled.
The judiciary has intervened several times in the past to throw out governments linked or allied to Thaksin.
(Additional reporting by Michelle Nichols at the United Nations, Editing by Alan Raybould, Clarence Fernandez and Andrew Hay)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate is ready to start conference proceedings to finalize a new farm bill but the House of Representatives has not sent its version of the bill for consideration, the chairwoman of the Senate Agriculture Committee said on Monday.
"I'm very concerned that the process start moving this week," Senator Debbie Stabenow said, noting that there are just 24 scheduled legislative days in the Senate before the current bill expires.
The Republican-controlled House on Thursday narrowly passed a farm bill that stripped out the parts that cover food stamps for poor Americans, the costliest part of the bill, over a veto threat from President Barack Obama.
Four days later it has not sent that bill to the Senate, drawing Monday's rebuke from Stabenow.
"We can't go to conference unless we have something that relates to the farm bill from the House," Stabenow, a Michigan Democrat, told reporters on a conference call. "We fully expected to receive it in the Senate right away."
Under the conference process, lawmakers from the Senate and House typically meet to work out differences between their respective versions of a bill. But Stabenow said she would be open to other approaches.
The Democratic-run Senate passed its version of the farm bill on June 10 - a five-year, $500 billion measure that would expand taxpayer-subsidized crop insurance and make small cuts to food stamp funding.
Stabenow ruled out passing a farm bill that did not include food stamps. "We could not pass that through the Senate, nor would the president sign that kind of bill," she said.
Food stamp payments would continue without a farm bill, because funding comes through the appropriations process. But Democrats have said the House strategy is to isolate food stamps for larger cuts by making them subject to annual funding.
The current farm bill was extended once before, over the new year, and will expire on September 30 without passage of a new version or a second extension. At that point U.S. farm policy would revert to 1949 "permanent law," which among other things would lead to a doubling of milk prices in U.S. grocery stores.
"Given the strange process we have had in the House, I would support any fair and open process that gets us a bipartisan, comprehensive farm bill," Stabenow said. "We're not going to negotiate with the extreme elements of the House who basically believe we should not support agriculture."
The Senate also passed a bipartisan farm bill in 2012, when the House version was never brought to a vote.
"This feels like 'Groundhog Day,' the movie, to me. Every day we get up and do the farm bill again," said Stabenow.
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"Well, the answer to your fan prayers has arrived, at least if you're a Virginia Tech supporter. Balzer and Associates, an architectural and engineering firm based in Roanoke, VA, is offering the first-ever line of officially-licensed collegiate home plans inspired by the Hokie's Blackburg campus. The plans (such as the "Stonehaven" design shown here) are collectively called "Bringing the Hokie Home" and each will have the Virginia Tech logo."The MZone crew has gotten way out in front on this issue with proposals for home designs for Ohio State and Notre Dame as well as FSU and Michigan State (warning: profanity). My favorite is the Notre Dame design.
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan's consumer prices fell in 2012 for the fourth straight year, highlighting the central bank's challenge in fighting deflation as its governor Friday reaffirmed plans for aggressive monetary easing.
Bank of Japan Gov. Masaaki Shirakawa told reporters that it would take substantial effort to achieve a 2 percent inflation target, announced earlier this week, aimed at breaking a prolonged spell of falling prices that are thought to be discouraging business investment and stalling recovery for the world's third-largest economy.
The consumer price index, which excludes fresh foods, fell 0.1 percent in 2012, adding to pressure on the central bank to make progress in re-energizing the economy. The CPI also dipped 0.2 percent in December, as expected.
The central bank has pledged to do everything it can to meet the new inflation target declared under pressure from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who has made reviving the recession-stricken economy his top priority since taking office a month ago.
At the same time, Shirakawa cautioned, the central bank's role is also to ensure stability and prevent financial bubbles — a growing worry among those skeptical that massive stimulus spending and heavy-duty monetary easing will do the trick after 20 years of economic malaise.
"Bubbles take a heavy toll on the economy," Shirakawa said. "The causes for them are varied, but they keep recurring," he said.
With monetary authorities of all the major economies in stimulus mode, massive amounts of money are flooding into world markets. Japan's Nikkei 225 stock index surged 2.9 percent, or 305.78 points, on Friday to 10,926.60. It has risen nearly 10 percent since the beginning of the year.
Shirakawa also stressed the need for improved fiscal discipline.
"Long-term interest rates will jump and erode the effect of monetary easing" if the central bank appears to be carelessly buying government bonds to achieve its target inflation rate, he said. Japan's public debt is already more than twice the size of the economy and rising fast.
While the central bank agreed to the inflation benchmark and "unlimited" monetary easing through open-ended asset purchases, the government must do its part to push ahead with reforms needed to revive growth and improve Japan's competitiveness, he said.
Japan's monetary easing has contributed to a weakening of its currency — another of Abe's goals aimed at boosting the manufacturing sector by making Japanese products more price competitive overseas.
The yen was trading at 90.50 to the dollar late Friday, after hitting a two-and-a-half year low earlier in the day.
Finance Minister Taro Aso, meanwhile, fended off criticism that Japan is manipulating its currency — a criticism voiced by some of its trading partners who have said they fear the weaker yen could precipitate competitive devaluations.
Japan's monetary easing is aimed at combatting deflation, and the yen is in a correction after a long spell of appreciation, he said.
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Author Notes: I have been making some version of this recipe for years, originally using canned creamed corn. Once I switched to fresh corn, I found the crunch that was needed for this creamy side dish. Pairing the corn with fresh basil from the garden is a classic summer combo.
TIP: Allow the pudding to rest for 15 minutes after baking before serving.
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tablespoons unsalted butter
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scallions, chopped, white and light green portions
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tablespoon honey
tablespoon all-purpose flour
cup whole milk
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Commencement ceremony for UH West O'ahu Saturday, Dec. 14
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Saturday, Dec. 14, is a special day for University of Hawai'i - West O'ahu graduates who will be honored during fall commencement exercises held in the UH West O'ahu Lower Courtyard. 150 graduates will participate in the ceremony with Senator Michelle Kidani delivering the keynote address.
"We are so proud of our UH West O'ahu graduates," said UH West O'ahu Chancellor Rockne Freitas. "Their hard work and sacrifice has all led up to this moment and we are looking forward to the many great things they will accomplish in their careers and in life."
Chancellor Rockne Freitas will preside over the ceremony and confer degrees. University of Hawai'i System Interim President David Lassner and University of Hawai'i Board of Regents' Jeffrey T. Acido, James H.Q. Lee, Tom H. Shigemoto and Jan N. Sullivan will address and congratulate the graduates.
Natalie Eichner, one of this year's outstanding UH West O'ahu graduates, will speak on behalf of the graduating class. Born and raised in Hawai'i, Natalie was homeschooled and participated as a national motocross racer. She is graduating with distinction and works as a student tutor in the UH West O'ahu No'eau Center for Writing, Math and Academic Success. Eichner is the former president of the UH West O'ahu Humanities Club and volunteers as a youth mentor and Sunday School teacher. A resident of Waialua, she plans to pursue a master's degree in English following graduation.
UH West O'ahu graduates will receive their baccalaureate in Applied Sciences, Business Administration, Education, Humanities, Public Administration and Social Sciences during the commencement ceremony. Graduates will also receive certificates in various programs including Applied Forensic Anthropology, Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management, Health Care Administration, Risk Management and Insurance, and Substance Abuse and Addictions Studies.
The commencement ceremony will be streamed live on the UH West O'ahu website.
UH West O'ahu Fall 2013 Commencement details:
- All are welcome to attend commencement in the UH West O'ahu Lower Courtyard. No tickets will be issued. Guests may arrive at 3 p.m. The seating area will be closed off once it reaches maximum capacity.
- On-campus parking is free and open to the public. Carpooling is highly encouraged as there will be considerable congestion along the Farrington Highway entrance to the campus.
- Lei vendors will sell lei on the grassy area at the campus entrance near the Dining Commons. Balloons and strollers are not allowed in the commencement seating area for safety reasons.
- The UH West O'ahu on-campus restaurant, Hawaiian Grown Kitchen, will be open from 2-6 p.m.
- Graduates will greet guests following the ceremony at 5:30 p.m. at the UH West O'ahu Campus Center Plaza near alphabetical signs.
UH West O'ahu became a four-year, regional comprehensive university when it served its first class of freshmen in fall 2007. The University offers quality education, small classes and personalized attention at convenient locations. UH West O'ahu serves approximately 2,400 students at its brand new, state-of-the-art campus that opened in the City of Kapolei in 2012. For more information, visit uhwo.Hawaiʻi.edu, twitter.com/uhwestoahu, facebook.com/uhwestoahu or call 689-2800 or toll-free (866) 299-8656.


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Located at the heart of the "orchard county" of Armagh, this modern hotel is a sister establishment to the Dunadry Hotel & Country Club, Co. Antrim and Wellington Park Hotel, Belfast (see entries).
Although the functional lines of the building are disappointingly out of place in this historic location, it has brought welcome facilities to the area, notably contributing Northern Ireland's largest hotel conference facility.
A cafeteria style 'deli' and informal dining area located in the foyer give a poor impression on arrival - but the bar and more formal restaurant areas at the back of the hotel look out onto pleasant landscaped gardens, and there is a beer garden, 'The Balcony'.
Bedrooms are practical and well-equipped for business guests, with good amenities.


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B.A. Carnegie Mellon University, 1973
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Professor Gertz's research and publications are centered in western European literature of the late middle ages (12th to 14th centuries). In particular, she works with Old French, Middle High German, Latin, Middle English, and Italian narratives and poetry, using literary, semiotic, and rhetorical theory (classical, medieval, and modern). Having worked on the structures of history, memory, semiotic theory, and contemplative practice, Professor Gertz has turned to researching the narrative structures of power. Her recent publications reflect this shift, including: an article on the Black Prince's staging ofhimself as King Arthur in Speaking Pictures: The Visual, Verbal Nexus of Dramatic Performance, published by Farleigh Dickinson University Press in 2010, and edited by the English Department's own Virginia Vaughan along with her colleagues Ferrando Cioni and Jacqueline Bessell; a journal article entitled "Fame and Politics: The Persuasive Poetics of Leadership," published in 2011 by Semiotica; and a book that came out with Palgrave Macmillan Press, Visual Power and Fame in René d' Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince. Her work-in-progress concerns the power of narratives to convey national myths. The topics of her classes change each year to reflect some of her current work. Consequently, a good number of her students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels have participated in conferences, delivering papers written under her supervision.
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Since third grade, I knew I would be a professor. I just didn't know of what. In fact, I didn't know which field would become my area of specialization until my first year of Ph.D. studies. Moving from Chemistry to Philosophy to Art to Literature, I finally decided on Comparative Literature with a focus on western European medieval studies. The field allows me to read fascinating texts in various languages, to work with theory (my favorite areas are semiotic and rhetorical theories), and to puzzle over an ever-increasing list of questions that also take my areas of interest into account (even chemistry in the form of alchemy) in a profession I've always wanted to pursue.
Fortunately, teaching helps ground my scholarship; indeed, the two are absolutely integrated. I think that, my scholarship and interests serve as a locus--a place, a text--where students and I can converse, learn, pursue knowledge, and hopefully, interest others in that pursuit. Students who work with me learn not only how to discuss their views, but also how important it is to write effectively in order to think well and to re-write again and again in order to tease nuances out of complex thoughts. Whether we're working on Chaucer and other medieval authors, on poems or films and semiotic theory, on eastern and western thinkers who've written about contemplative practice, or on political leaders, we not only learn the importance of contextualizing facts, but in the process we also become acquainted with literary texts and philosophical thought, while analyzing important themes further allows us to understand how these diverse bits of knowledge may very well be relevant to our lives.
Especially in these times, when external demands dictate the pace of our days, advertising colors our self-perceptions and relationships, and even university life requires more focus on more and more professional concerns, it's necessary to have just such a locus so we may stop, think, and reflect, to (even though it may sound a bit dated) cultivate wisdom.
Recent Publications
My publications, five books and over twenty articles along with ten other short pieces, reflect this kind of interdisciplinary focus. One of the five interdisciplinary books, for example, is an anthology on semiotic theory that was co-edited by a colleague in Psychology and a M.A. student from our own English Department. My most recent book looks at the Black Prince and René d'Anjou, two late medieval leaders, through their writing and the lens of Geoffrey Chaucer's House of Fame--it is grounded, though, in our own times by a paradigm I created from recent political events and which was published seperately in the journal, Semiotica.
2010: Visual Power and Fame in René d'Anjou, Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Black Prince New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
|2007: Semiotic Rotations: Modes of Meaning in Cultural Worlds: Information Age Publishing.
2003: Echoes and Reflections: Memory and Memorials in Ovid and Marie de France. New York: Rodopi.
2001: Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580. New York: Palgrave.
1996: Poetic Prologues: Medieval Conversations with the Literary Past: Klosterman.


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Engadget HD has the story on why CableCARD 2.0—the standard that everyone's waiting for to provide bi-directional high- def cable support like video on demand—isn't here yet. Turns out the standard for bi-directional certification isn't there, and the associations and coalitions of companies can't agree to agree on what's needed for certification.Come July 1, when the government mandate that says all set-top-boxes need to have CableCARD support goes into effect, cable companies will be rolling out M-Card bi-directional cards that can activate dual-tuner DVRs from just one slot. But still, the problem is on the software side, which means TiVo Series 3s and Vista CableCARD machines won't be doing bi-directional support until a standard is there.
So the actual headline should probably be "There is no CableCARD 2.0...yet."
There is no CableCARD 2.0 [Engadget HD]


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Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) is the world's largest producer of household and personal products by revenue, with its products reaching 4 billion people worldwide.[1] including Tide detergent, Pampers diapers, and Gillette razors, that generate over $1 billion in revenue annually.[2][3]
One of the key areas of growth for the company is in emerging markets worldwide.[2] P&G already owns large and growing market share in countries including China and Russia. P&G has created products such as Downy Single Rinse, low-water volume detergent, and Naturella, a low-income feminine protection product, specifically for developing nations. [4] In light of the global economic downturn, P&G has announced it will focus its growth strategy on emerging markets, opening almost all of its 20 new manufacturing facilities outside its established markets. [5]
Proctor and Gamble looks to bring in new product ideas from outside the company. Connect + Develop has led to the development of 42% of new P&G products in recent years. [6] [7] In February 2010, the company said it will launch a "flurry" of new products globally, using innovation to boost sales in fiscal 2010 coming out of the global recession.[8]
With $79 billion in sales across the world in fiscal 2010 and 24 brands with $1 billion of sales each,[3] P&G is a global giant for household and personal goods. P&G divides its business into three Global Business Units (GBUs) that develop and produce products and its Corporate group which handles the operation and administration of the company.
Household staples are somewhat protected from the US recession and global economic downturn. However, in a recession consumers often turn to cheaper private label or store brands instead of "brand name" products from P&G. To combat private label encroachment, P&G offers at least two product forms in many product categories. For example, the company has seen increases sales in Luvs from Pampers diapers and an increase in Gain detergent sales from Tide.[14] In addition, P&G offers "Basic" versions of its Charmin toilet paper and Bounty paper towels.[15] The company's broad offerings, combined with the necessity of household items, provide a degree of insulation against recession.
The rise of a handful of powerful low-priced retailers has negatively impacted consumer products companies. A handful of big retailers have captured a large share of the market. These large retailers have shifted the balance of power within the supply chain. For example, the company's largest customer, Wal-Mart, accounts for roughly 15% of net sales. [16] Wal-Mart has exerted its power over other suppliers to their detriment in the past, such as forcing record companies to produce clean-label CDs and pulling adult magazines.[17] A decision by Wal-Mart not to sell a particular P&G consumer product would prevent P&G from reaching its entire target market. In addition, many retailers have pushed their own higher margin private label brands in competition with P&G.
In the past decade, P&G has faced stiff competition from private label brands or "store brands" of large retailers such as Wal-Mart, Target, and supermarket chains. Private label products often sell at lower price points and earn higher margins because the retailers can control the cost of their production. For example, Wal-Mart offers 5,500 products through its "Great Value" brand, which has increasingly sold as consumers feel the recession squeeze on their disposable income.[15] Large retailers are close to the consumers, have the point of sale data on consumer behavior and are in better position to understand consumer behavior. These strengths contribute to better private label product development, which directly compete with P&G products. Retailers also promote their own brands as they earn higher margins on them. P&G has addressed this issue by continuously investing in Research & Development and introducing new products as well as offering different versions of its own products at different price points. [15]
Procter & Gamble provides the broadest and biggest portfolio of products in the household and personal care industry with 24 billion-dollar brands. P&G generates approximately one and half times the revenue than its closest competitor, Unilever (UL), and possesses a higher operating margin (20.30%) than any of its competitors as well. The company invests about $2 billion a year in R&D, nearly twice that of Unilever, and equal to the combined total of its other major competitors — Avon, Clorox Company (CLX), Colgate-Palmolive Company (CL), Energizer Holdings (ENR), Henkel (HEN-FF), Kimberly-Clark (KMB), L'Oreal, and Reckitt Benckiser.[18]
Clorox is one of P&G's main competitors, specifically the two companies compete directly in the household products market, especially in household cleaning products. Clorox is known for their trademark Clorox bleach products and other cleaning supplies like Pine-Sol.[19] Although much of the two companies' product catalogs overlap, there are significant differences that prevent Clorox from being in complete, direct competition with P&G. For example, one of the largest sectors of P&G's business is beauty products, which are not part of Clorox's product offerings.
Kimberly-Clark competes with P&G in the household products market, particularly in tissues, paper towels, diapers, and feminine products. Major K-C brands include Huggies diapers, Kotex feminine products, Scott paper towels and Kleenex tissues. Kimberly Clark sells its products to both consumers and large businesses.
Colgate-Palmolive produces a product catalog that most overlaps with P&G's product lineup relative to other competitors. Colgate is best known for its flagship toothpaste, which had a 44.4% global market share in 2009, but the company also manufactures toothbrushes, dental floss, detergents, soap, and pet care products.
L'Oreal competes with P&G in the beauty products market. L'Oreal's two biggest product categories are skincare and haircare products. Unlike diversified companies like P&G, L'Oreal is purely a beauty and cosmetics company with its product catalog centered around skincare, haircare, make-up, perfume and other beauty products. However, the beauty industry has much higher margins than certain markets that P&G is involved in, which leads to high profits for L'Oreal.


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Sylvia Li was a winner in doubles and singles against St. John's Saturday afternoon (photo courtesy Gil Talbot).
Harvard opened the match with a 1-0 lead after cruising in three doubles matches. The Crimson's three pairs did not allow the Red Storm to win more than three games during the eight-game pro set matches.
On the singles side, The Crimson won the first three matches to accumulate the necessary four points needed to secure the match.
Tachibana continued the momentum she gained in doubles and rolled to a win in straight sets over Joanna Zwirbulis in the No. 2 spot. The Harvard junior did not allow Zwirbulis to take a game, as she won back-to-back 6-0 decisions.
After the match, the Harvard squad gave back to the local community by hosting a clinic featuring Wheelchair tennis. Mike Mercier, Harvard Head Tennis Pro and USTA New England Wheelchair professional, led the clinic that featured Merrimack Valley Academy of Tennis and Harvard players.
The Crimson will travel to Orlando, Fla. next weekend to take on Iowa March 17 and Central Florida March 18.
Doubles (3-0 Harvard)
1. Tachibana/Norton (H) defeated Selakovic/Austin 8-2
2. Morrill/Whelan(H) defeated Firat/Zwirbulis 8-3
3. Blosser/Li (H) defeated Thomas/Pogribnyak 3-0 (ret.)


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AUBURN—Former Auburn player and coach, Rodney Garner, has been named assistant head coach and defensive line coach at his alma mater, head coach Gus Malzahn announced Thursday. Garner, who was an All-SEC player at Auburn in 1988 and coached on the Plains from 1990-95, will also serve as recruiting coordinator. Garner spent the previous 12 years at the University of Georgia where he served in a similar capacity.
"We excited to announce Rodney Garner as our assistant head coach and defensive line coach," Malzahn said. "Rodney is one of the top defensive line coaches in college football who has had great success in the Southeastern Conference. We're excited to welcome an Auburn man back home."
A native of Leeds, Ala., Garner was named All-SEC and honorable mention All-America offensive lineman as a senior at Auburn in 1988. He also captained his team that captured the 1988 SEC Championship.
"Auburn has always been a very special place for me and my wife, Kimberly, who is also an Auburn graduate," Garner said. "I owe a lot to Auburn and the men who helped mold me to who I am today both professionally and personally. I'm very appreciative to Coach Malzahn for this opportunity and I feel very strongly that I can be an asset to the program. I have a lot of love for Auburn and I felt this was a great chance to help give back to a place that has given me so much. I look forward to helping get Auburn back to where it belongs."
As a coach for the Tigers, Garner served in several capacities on the Auburn staff from 1990-95 including recruiting coordinator, tight ends coach, and assistant strength and conditioning coach.
During his 12 years at Georgia, he has been part of a staff that led UGA to 117 victories, two SEC championships, five SEC Eastern Division titles, seven bowl victories, and six top ten finishes in the final national polls including No. 2 in 2007 and No. 3 in 2002.
He added the title of assistant head coach at Georgia in 2005 after serving as defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Georgia since January, 1998.
This past season, Garner helped the Bulldogs to an 11-2 record, the SEC Eastern Division title and a berth in the Capital One Bowl. The Georgia defense ranked 17th nationally in scoring defense, allowing just 18.7 points per game. He was part of the 2005 Georgia team that finished eighth nationally in scoring defense (16.4 ppg).
The 2003 Georgia defense finished second nationally in scoring defense (14.5 ppg), fourth in total defense (276.86 ypg), sixth in passing defense (174.50 ypg, 1st in the SEC), while helping the Bulldogs to a divisional title.
He helped coach the 2002 Bulldog defense that finished first in the SEC and fourth nationally in scoring defense (15.1 ppg), first in the SEC in red zone defense (58.8%) and second in the SEC in rushing defense (114.0 ypg). The 2002 Bulldogs finished 13-1, won the SEC and Nokia Sugar Bowl Championships, and were ranked third in the final national polls.
Garner participated in the inaugural Minority Coaches Forum in Scottsdale, Ariz., in May, 2006. He was also selected one of 10 coaches from throughout the country to participate in the 2004 NCAA Expert Coaching Academy in Indianapolis and one of only 20 chosen for the NCAA's 2004 Advanced Coaching Academy in Orlando.
In the past 12 seasons, he has coached four NFL first round draft choices -- Richard Seymour (Patriots) and Marcus Stroud (Jaguars), both Pro Bowl starters; Charles Grant (Saints); and Johnathan Sullivan (Saints). He has also coached DeAngelo Tyson (7th, Ravens, '12), Corvey Irvin (3rd, Panthers, '09), Kedric Golston (6th, Redskins, '06), Emarlos Leroy (6th, Jaguars, '99), and free agent linemen Ken Veal (Chargers, '04), Paul Snellings (Colts, 2000), and Brandon Miller (Colts, 2000).
Garner coached tight ends and offensive tackles at Tennessee in 1997 after coaching tight ends for the Volunteers in 1996. He began his coaching career at Auburn in 1990.
After his playing career at Auburn, Garner had a free agent tryout with the NFL's Tampa Bay Buccaneers and played with the Pittsburgh Gladiators arena football team in1989.
Garner was an outstanding high school player at Leeds High School receiving many national, state, and local honors. He is married to Kimberly Lawson Garner, an 1988 Auburn graduate. They have six children, Bridgett (26), Brielle (15), Jaiden (11), Kai (10), and Sydney and Milan (8 years).
INFORMATION SOURCE: Auburn Athletics Dept.


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Irene Andrist, 86 - June 30, 2011
Irene Erna Andrist, 86, of Gothenburg, formerly of St. Francis, KS, died June 30, 2011, at Hilltop Estates, Gothenburg.
Her wish to be cremated was honored and inurnment will be at a later date in the St. Francis Cemetery.
Andrist was born Feb. 23, 1925, in Gackle, ND, daughter of D J and Lydia Wolff Schlittenhardt. In 1928, Irene moved from North Dakota by train, with her father and mother, to a farm which was northwest of St. Francis, KS then known as "The Breaks."
She was united in marriage to Harland Andrist. Irene and Harland owned and operated Harland's Grill in St. Francis, KS, for over 30 years. She was well known for her famous cinnamon rolls and pies she made each day, as well as her chicken fried steak and pan fried chicken.
Her love of baking was immense; when visiting with friends or business acquaintances she always brought some of her baked goods for their enjoyment.
She was a member of the Christian Church and the American Legion Club.
In 2008, Andrist moved to Gothenburg to be near her son Bob and his wife Pat.
Andrist was preceded in death by her husband Harland, her parents and three brothers: Ervin, Bob and Edwin.
She is survived by: son Bob and wife Pat of Gothenburg; grandson Jai and wife Lisa and family of Gibbon; granddaughter Tia of Kearney; son Jerry and wife Pam of San Antonia, TX; grandsons Shane and family and John and family; granddaughter Kendall of Hays, KS; two brothers—Danny and family of St. Francis and Al and family of Texas.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to the St. Francis Senior Center or the Christen Church of St Francis, KS.
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The 17-year-old youth basketball referee who got into an argument with Frederick County Commissioners President Blaine Young rebuts some of the county official's claims, his mother said Wednesday.
Stacy Allwein said her son, Michael, was not the aggressor in the Jan. 5 dispute, and the New Life Christian School senior reacted only after Young, 41, made an obscene comment.
Allwein said she was not at the game, but believes her son's explanation of events.
Allwein, of New Market, said in an interview with The Frederick News-Post that although her son did not want to talk publicly about the event, she felt a need to balance the claims made by Young.
"I was furious when it all happened," she said. "We decided to let it go. We wanted to set the right example for Michael."
But after reading that Young told The News-Post the referee initiated the confrontation, Stacy Allwein decided to come forward.
"I just thought it was very arrogant and (Young) was twisting things to make himself look like a victim," Allwein said. "It just appeared he had ulterior political motives. Taking the blame off him and putting it on a 17-year-old."
Allwein said she was shocked by Young's comments to her son.
"You might call someone a lot of things, but who calls somebody those obscene words?" she said.
Young, who is campaigning for governor, is a volunteer coach for his son's team, the Heat. The players are fifth- and sixth-graders.
The Linganore, Oakdale, Urbana Youth Athletic Association disciplined Young with a one-game suspension. Young said he decided to call the teenager to apologize.
"If I thought it was appropriate, would I agree to sit a game or would I agree to apologize?" Young said. "Have elected officials or human beings made mistakes? Sure."
Allwein was not suspended for his actions, but was told how to better handle similar situations in the future, according to a league official.
"They both agreed the situation escalated to an unacceptable level," the league's president, Jamie Dailey, said Wednesday. "We addressed the situation immediately and took action. As far as we're concerned, the situation is over and was handled appropriately."
LOUYAA Vice President Arnie McGaha called both the coach and referee to get their versions of what happened, Dailey said. No one witnessed the altercation.
"Just the simple fact that there was a heated argument that took place, that is not acceptable on our playing field," Dailey said. "Whatever happened, it shouldn't have."
David Crawmer, coach of the opposing team, said Wednesday that he heard some banter between Young and Allwein during the game.
"Nothing I had never seen before," Crawmer said. "A coach not happy about a call. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary."
After the game, Crawmer shook hands with Young's team and the referees and walked away, he said; he did not see or hear the postgame altercation.
Who said what and when is still up for debate. Allwein said her son gave the following account:
After the game, Michael was sitting on the floor changing his shoes when Young confronted him.
"Blaine was hovering over him," she said.
After a brief exchange, Allwein said her son told Young to "get out of my face."
That's when Young made an obscene comment, she said, and her son responded with mild profanity.
Young's account of events differs. While he would not say specifically what was said, Young reiterated Wednesday that the referee initiated the verbal dispute.
"What he said to me, I found extremely offensive," Young said.
The situation bothered him for the rest of that weekend, he said.
"This was an isolated situation that got out of hand on both sides," Young said. "It bothered me that I allowed somebody to get to me that way."
This is the first problem the league has had with either Young or Allwein, according to McGaha.
"I think Michael is a young man who has a lot of passion toward basketball and likes to be around the game," McGaha said. "I think they are both good people, and I think they are involved because they have a passion for basketball."
Young's team won the game by 19 points and remains undefeated this season, according to the league's website.
Allwein, who is in his first season as a referee for this league, will continue to work games, his mother said. Referees are paid less than $20 a game, according to a league official.
Her son, who has played basketball since the first grade, is a starting guard on his high school team.
"He literally is doing it because he likes to do it," Stacy Allwein said of Michael's decision to be a referee. "He gives up a lot of things, but he likes to be in the gym. ... He knows basketball, and he loves kids." ___


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February 06. 2013 12:30PM
House kills supermajority amendment for tax increases
By GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
CONCORD - House members killed a proposed constitutional amendment that would require a supermajority to pass or increase taxes and fees.
CACR 1 is similar to one that died last year when the House failed to agree with changes the Senate made in the proposed amendment.
CACR would require a three-fifths majority of the House and Senate to approve new taxes or fees or increases in taxes and fees.
The measure needed a three-fifths majority to send it on to the Senate.The vote was 206-149 to kill the bill.


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(AllHipHop News) In a move that will keep Flavor Flav out of jail, the 55 year old hip hop hypeman turned reality TV show fixture has plead guilty to a Las Vegas domestic violence charge.
Today (April 14th) pled guilty in Clark County District Court in Las Vegas, NV to reduced misdemeanor charges of attempted battery in connection to an October 2012 argument with his girlfriend's 17 year old son.
Flav's fiancee, Liz Trujillo accused the rapper of threatening her son with a "20 inch butcher knife" and throwing her around when she attempted to prevent him from harming her son.
Flav's was originally facing felony assault and child endangerment with a weapon charges with a possible jail bid of 12 years. The next court date for Flav is August 18th.


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ok. ....i'll list several of the biggest names but apologies if i omit anyone......lol.......it's just for fun so please vote......
I voted for the Labyrinth-guy. I thought Brothers Grimm wasn't good at all, so that explains my vote.
I also would like Alfonso Cuaron to direct (Harry Potter Azkaban, Y tu mama Tambien, Children of Men) or Steven Spielberg. He also, could make this work, although I think 'War of the Worlds' was weak. Also M. Night Shyamalan would be great. I know some people hate his twist-plots, but when it comes to directing and having a vision, this guy is heaven!
Guillermo del Toro would be my 1st pick. He is very imaginary and would make this Movie have a unique feel to it.
M. Night Shyamalan would be my 2nd pick, Ron Howard my 3rd, Riddley Scot my 4th and Terry Gilliam my 5th.
They would all be great Directors for this Movie, and if Guillermo del Toro would somehow turn out to be the Director, than that would be an upgrade over Tim Burton, IMO.
Though Tim Burton has more to show for with a larger quantity of good Movies. Guillermo del Toro is relativity new to Directing, but Pans Labyrinth is just as good, if not better, than any Tim Burton Movie.
If they offer him the role, he'll turn it down like he does with every Movie.
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I loved his "12monkeys", i dont think he ruined that movie, actually he did a masterpiece, also I love "Brazil". He can do a weird movie at the same time an inteligent movie, and think he has sense of humor too, that might work with Jim and with a wonderful and good film.
I need to see some of his Movies, they look very different and interesting. Which is what I dig.
Hey Fluffs how about we do it as a team? We'll let him have all the dinosaurs he wants lol It will be like Ripley visits Jurassic Park hehe
No beastuality in this movie tho cause that is just plain sick lol
^ haha so did I!
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Chicago will likely not log its 100th homicide this month, bucking a trend that dates back at least eight years.
Chicago has reached 100 homicides in April every year since 2005 except for last year, when the city hit that mark in March, a RedEye analysis of police data found.
Chicago has logged 92 homicides this year through Thursday, RedEye data shows. May 1 is Wednesday.
In the last five years, the latest Chicago reached 100 homicides was in 2011 when it hit that mark on April 26. The city logged its 100th homicide last year on March 20.
Police records show that the city reached 100 homicides in March every year from 1998 to 2004 and in February every year between 1995 and 1997.
Homicides are down 41 percent year-to-date compared to last year and 7 percent compared to 2011.


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The Fray speaks out on Hershey.
Candyman II: Farewell to the Cash: The Moneybox Fray discussion of Daniel Gross' piece on the meltdown of the Hershey sale started slowly but has picked up since it was featured. Food-industry consultant-types pondered the fate of family-owned companies here while Baltimore Aureole ridiculed the idea of diversification behind the sale here:
good thing the hershey trustees didn't sell the company in 2000 ... to satisfy Gross' diversification mandate, they might have invested the proceeds in Enron, WorldCom, AOL Time Warner, Tyco, Lucent. were there any winners over the past 2 years?
Thomas' detailed post on the legalfracases of the Hershey Trust board of managers is as interesting a story as he claims, particularly the part where the managers claim they can't spend all the money the trust makes now.
Entr'Acte: Also in the Moneybox Fray is the nascent discussion of CEO second acts. Captain Ron Voyage stuck up for F. Scott Fitzgerald here:
Ivan Boesky, Ross Perot, Fawn Hall, David Stockman, G. Gordon Liddy, the "Where's the Beef?" Lady, Adnan Khashoggi, "Dan & Dave", Robin Leach, Shannen Doherty, the "Bartles & Jaymes" guys, Spiro Agnew, McLean Stevenson, Dan Rostenkowski, the XFL, Edwin Meese, Disco Duck and MC Scat Kat. What do they all have in common? They're all people who committed unspeakable crimes against the American people (usually in the name of money), and they have all had absolutely no "second act" whatsoever.
I would suggest not being so sanguine about Kenneth Lay. Evidence suggest there are plenty of bad boys with no second acts out there, we just can't remember who they are. The second acts (even Milken) are the ones with discernible talent, of which Mr. Lay appears (along with Mr. Winnick) to have none.
Dontcha think? In the Poems Fray, the usually interesting discussion of the poem of the week (" Prayer Meeting") includes a veritable Niagara of ironing puns here ... 9:40 a.m.
Dontcha think? In the Poems Fray, the usually interesting discussion of the poem of the week (" Prayer Meeting") includes a veritable Niagara of ironing puns here ... 9:40 a.m.
Thursday, Sept. 19, 2002
Let's call the calling-off off: The Nuclear vs. Nucular Explainer went up on MSN.com, and the posts poured into the Explainer Fray. While most posters (like, say, William Blake here) thought this quibble was simply another and more pitiful front in Slate's war on Bush's lexicon (joining up with Bushisms), at least a couple saw it as a defense of linguistic sloppiness ( here and here)—a way of allowing lazy Americans to crawfish out of their obligation to the mother tongue. (No one saw Bush as a Bloomian strong poet.) Mrachmuth got the joke here:
Webster's Dictionary explains President Bush's speech: Much, if not most, of what the President says, in both manner and substance, is "questionable and unacceptable."
Total quality fraying: One of the great things about the Explainer Fray is that people who really know what they are talking about can advance or qualify the explanation, and since the point of the Explainer in the first place is to reduce a problem to a factual question and answer, the Fray seems to embody that magnificent moment in the old diagram of the scientific method where the arrow goes back up to the beginning: Pure feedback.
The best post to the War Games Explainer was Scipio's here, which elaborated on the goals of a war game for both strategic and tactical commanders and, along the way, made General Riper's "victories" seem less impressive. A critical snippet from his long entry:
It's great that General Riper found a way to defeat the blue forces. Big deal—I can score 25 goals a game on EA Sports NHL 2000, if I send Peter Forsberg behind the net to dish off to a Joe Sakic slapshot. My point is that the strategic goal of the war games isn't using a trick to beat the computer's logic, it's addressing the dozen or two dozen most likely scenarios foreseen by the planners, think tankers and political leaders.
It's really important to remember the Army's prime operational maxim: No plan survives contact with the enemy.
Ewing some, you lose some: In the Sports Nut Fray discussion of Hugo Lindgren's "why Ewing never won a championship," there were the usual debates (Ewing vs. other centers, why Pat Riley didn't play Hubert Davis in Game 7 of the 1994 finals, etc.) and one post that seemed to cut through the hoo-hah. As Brian Disco Snell explained here, in an era of 30-team leagues, old rules no longer apply:
Mathematically, then, it is a plain fact that more and more star players will simply be unable to win championships during their careers. Therefore, to judge players of the '90s and '00s by the same "how many titles did he win" standard by which we discuss the players of the '60s is probably not appropriate. And to describe a lack of championships as a "curse" is really just a simplistic illusion that any star player is capable of winning the title, if only his character is good.
Perhaps this is the kind of emergency that requires Richard Bangs' Ph.D. companions … 7:00a.m.
Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2002
This land is the land of ours: Avi Schick's Jurisprudence piece pointed to "Blaine amendments" in state constitutions as a major roadblock for school vouchers proponents. In the Jurisprudence Fray, Meriadoc asked the logical follow-up questions: Does Ohio have a Blaine amendment? Does the Supreme Court's decision upholding Cleveland's voucher program trump it? Schick's short answers here are yes and no. The most interesting part of the answer only confirms the importance ofstate court rulings to the future of school vouchers:
[T]he Ohio Supreme Court rejected the lower courts' finding that Ohio's "Blaine Amendment" was coextensive with the Establishment Clause. (This would have provided an easy way out for the court, because it had already decided that the program didn't violate
the Establishment Clause) …
[Instead] the court found that state funds don't flow to private schools because the voucher checks are sent to parents and then signed over to the school. (The Florida court rejected that same argument as "elevating form over substance.")
Schick provides text from the Ohio Constitution and the Ohio Supreme Court opinion in the full post … 7:25 p.m.
Inspectors, gadgets: Ballot Box is atwitter as it weighs Saddam's likely "conditions" and Saletan's increasinglyhawkish rhetoric. (Saletan has been a common presence in the Ballot Box Fray of late. The funniest thread began here. Last week, Saletan's harshest rebuttal came here. His posts have a salutary effect on the place.) The best threads began with Keep a ClearEye's counterfactual post here—what if there are inspections but no weapons of mass destruction?—JackD's post here, and Realist's here:
Why assume that Hussein's inspections offer is merely clever deceitfulness masquerading as a concession? Isn't it more likely that Hussein is looking for middle ground that would allow him to save face, his rule, and ultimately keep his country at peace?
He wants to negotiate. Bush doesn't. Bush's tough guy strategy may backfire because he makes his adversary look more reasonable than he is by refusing to talk things over.
In the mood for a complete review of U.S. foreign policy? Check out David Garver's superb long post here and the thread that follows.
Dr. Phil or Phil's Dr.'s?: marylb, America's lone Donahue viewer, started an excellent discussion of the waitress/doctors and terrorist tipping here.
Yellow lines and dead Frays: Thus far people have nothing to say about this week's Book Club, Middlesex. So dust off your copies of Myra Breckenridgeand S/Z, your DVD's of Hedwig and Boys Don't Cry,and get Fraying …
Deep Impacts: Although the Fraying may have been rather thin to open the week, be prepared for a tsunami of scintillating new content, which will keep me and, I hope, you awash in superior posts … 8:15 a.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2002
New and improved!: The Ad Report Card Fray—now with more Baudrillard!!! here.
City on the make: The Diary Fray continues to be a place for great debates. Try some of the featured posts at the bottom of Kalven's second entry ... 9:05 p.m.
Candyman, Candyman, Candyman … : As the new week of Fraying gets underway, it's clear the Diary Fray discussion of Jamie Kalven's work in a Chicago Housing Authority high-rise will be one of the best for several reasons—great writing, great photos, a contentious public policy debate seen from the inside, and what promises to be regular Fray contributions from Kalven's colleague, David Eads. You can check his first post here and his MBTU for subsequent posts. (Forewarning: Any discussion of people receiving public assistance will draw vicious, racist posts. Try to navigate around those; I will try to keep the Fray relatively tidy.)
Opera-tion: The panel of Sopranos-watching psychologists aside, Mitch had the best welcome back Tony post in the Sopranos discussion here:
Seems like the writers for these highbrow series weary of their success even before the audiences; remember St.Elsewhere's cheesy descent into Twilight Zone mystico-weird in their last season? The season opener suggests a more post-modern fate for Tony, as the Family deconstructs into a garden-variety NYC/NJ business struggling to turn a profit in the post-9-11 environment, and the CEO struggles with the age-old difficulties of estate planning for the cash-basis (non)taxpayer. Tony's losing the last mythic Godfather overtones, as the musical underpinnings shift from operatic to techno-punk ...
J Gayles went expressionist here—can someone verify? Mels started a death poll here—who's next to get it? And can someone answer AngeliqueArnold's obsessional question here: what was sticking out the top of Tony's bathrobe? (All of these are in the TV Club Fray.)
Jargon of Authenticity: In the "maybe a little conformity wouldn't be so bad in this case" department: AdamMorgan's post to the Ad Report Card Fray here … 4:40 a.m.
Monday, Sept. 16, 2002
Morons and oxys: The Assessment Fray pivoted around a single phrase in Chris Suellentrop's piece on Tony Blair: "American liberal elites and intellectuals." Several Fraysters took issue (see my picks), but the best discussion began when Herb 323 contended that there are intellectuals who "DO NOT view Bush as a cowboy." He quickly ran into Keith M. Ellis, who pegged him as "sadly typical of the reflexive find-something-to-be-offended-with mentality so typical on the Fray."
Sullentrop's characterizations of American intellectuals as being leftist is beyond dispute. Not just in the sense that it's true, but also in the sense that no one disputes it….
Conservatives tend to rant incessantly about the leftist bias in academia and the arts. Conservative Americans tend more toward the traditional American distrust of intellectualism which sees calling someone an "intellectual" as more of an insult than a compliment. You can't have it both ways…
And yet despite this opening salvo, both moderated their positions later in the thread …
Elocution envy: While Shari Ward was among many to suggest "Blair in '04," dikstr took a more corporate approach, wondering if the U.S. could "merge" with Great Britain.
A:B::C:D: The analogies section of the SAT may be history, but Zathras fights on. Find out why he thinks "Blair is to Bush, in short, as Thatcher was to Reagan and MacMillan to Kennedy," here.
Subj: Unsubscribe: The normally mellow Cagle Fray (which discusses editorial cartoons) erupted (well, not a Ballot-Box-style eruption, but still) when Cagle reposted some cartoons from 9/11/01. Ritual unsubscribes littered the board.
TV Club Whacked! Now that the panel of psychologists is back for the new Sopranos season, and the TV Club is on MSN.com, the Fray may get clogged. In such situations, look for the posts from the first couple hours to find the best discussions. Late tonight, start looking for my picks … 2:15 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 13, 2002
Ballot Box has been especially busy keeping up with Bush's major policy statements: the NYT op-ed, the speech on Ellis Island, and the address to the U.N. Put all that into the Ballot Box Fray, where it runs into the boisterous background of party-bashing, political news flashes and polls (Q: Will there be a vote in the Senate on war with Iraq?), and it can be hard Fraying. As usual, a time-constrained reader can simply View Fray Editor's Picks (there are a passel) or go to any of the selections below. ...
I. More government by op-ed: The Bell started perhaps the best Op-Ed thread here. Arrow read the piece as legitimate strategic thinking here:
Saletan is probably correct that the one thing of importance in "Bush"'s essay is the addition of delivery capability to the criteria for pre-emptive military action. It suggests that the suitcase theory enunciated by Cheney and company is being given a well-deserved burial.
In contrast, Lee saw Bush becoming Clinton here:
Slowly, the president is expanding the appeal of his desire to invade Iraq. He's trying to push everybody's buttons by telling them Saddam threatens something they cherish. Shades of Bill Clinton!
So, is he reaching out, or grasping at straws? Will he resort to humanistic, liberal ideas to justify toppling Saddam? Keep in mind that he snubbed his conservative/free market/libertarian friends with his action on steel tariffs. He could just as easily get all weepy & liberal if he thinks it would gain him the support he needs to whack Saddam.
Matt continued the rights discussion here.
II. Islands of influence: Walt was one of the few to single out the Ellis Island speech for scrutiny here:
Saletan has a very curious take:"Bin Laden won't get the showdown he sought between Islam and Christianity." Let's hope not. But the Bush administration, by pounding the invade-Iraq war drum, seems to be attempting to precipitate exactly that. If we invade Iraq over the objections of Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, etc. won't we be instigating such a showdown?
Of course, this was before the UN speech, and Bush's newfound multilateralism.
III. U.N.-expected: After Bush's speech to the U.N., Saletan made essentially John's argument below (see Tuesday's Fraywatch). The Slasher made it, too, but with the rhetoric ratcheted up here:
The Bush administration has developed what might be termed a "mad dog" approach to governance. Its initial approach to everything is so extreme that it horrifies everyone, but it digs in and defends it until it's obvious that nobody is buying this, so then it scales back to a more reasonable position and acts as if it were "working with" those who called its bluff. My grandson, who is 6, does this too. However, we do not let him run the country just yet.
(Contrast this with Doubter's thread on "manufacturing consent" here or Lee's point above.)
More U.N.-expected was the chorus of support for Bush's speech from both sides of the aisle in Ballot Box. Loran explained how he and Saletan had reached the same conclusion here:
Like Saletan, I keep asking why Iraq, why now, though? But I know the answer and so does he. While compared to historical precedent, a pre-emptive attack does seem to beg more motivation, it is clear that we can't do business with Saddam. It's not the terrorist nuclear threat supplied by him that worries us, it's the theatre nuclear threat that would stymie large troop concentrations in an area of vital oil supply.
Still More UN-expected was the chorus of support forClinton's appearance on Letterman. You can find pieces of it in Ballot Box (here) or Television (here) or you can go to the best discussion, the one begun by Adam Masin in the Best of The Fray Fray here …
Haole rollers: The post-Blue Crush sociologizing turned into tourists vs. locals after Ender started this thread. His upshot?
Sorry if I don't buy into the idea that life is somehow harder in paradise. The problem as I see it, paradise is not hard enough on the locals.
K House spoke for those trapped in paradise here:
You appear to have this idea of all of Hawaii being paradise, and paradise being too good to the locals, and the money obviously flowing in to the economy because you spent some cash. But, just like the movie and all other movies about Hawaii, you have a false impression about the place. There's an interior to the island that's hidden from the tourists that would stun you. ...
Common law and order: The Dear Prudence letter that generated the most response by far was In a Quandary's. (She wondered what to call hersignificant other.) Prudie had no definitive answer, so Gamebird offered one here.
What I sometimes do, rude though it is, is simply call them husband and wife. After all, they are living together, they are having sex in a committed and exclusive relationship, they are common law married in many states.
It annoys the heck out of the people involved though and I tend not to do it if I care about their feelings. However, I tend not to care about their feelings if they are unwilling to commit to the person they are shagging. After all, I'm lower on the totem pole than their sex buddy. ...
(If you think that's harsh, try this one or this.) Doodahman, in his weekly "two cents" noted sagely that "the words 'common law' have the same effect on the word 'wife' that 'special' has on the word 'Olympics.'
DP always has several sui-generis threads at least as rewarding as the letters in the column. Stunned's boyfriendforgot her name here. ...
Discussting: After several eminently sensible complaints, the Discuss button at the top of the Slate home page has been re-linked to the general Fray Topics page ... 12:45 p.m.


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Movie Review - Down With Love
Down With Love
Is it a romantic comedy or a Mad parody of one? Down With Love, directed with great panache by Peyton Reed (Bring It On), works as both, providing big laughs and an affectionate nod at a quaint sub-genre relegated to the realm of afternoon airings on the Turner Classic Movies network. Down With Love is built around a gimmick, but one that doesn't grow old. The film surprisingly provides more than a little insight into not only the movies that used to be made, but the way in which we watch them.
Down With Love is filmed entirely in the style of a 1960s sex comedy. Think of Pillow Talk starring Doris Day and Rock Hudson and Boys Night Out with Kim Novak and James Garner. Made in the days before Women's Lib, these garishly colored comedies paired a male chauvinist pig with a slightly ditzy but on-the-cutting-edge-of-liberation blonde (and they were almost always blond). Each was flanked by a best pal: the man-hungry, wisecracking, more sophisticated female foil and the fussy male second banana who always talked about scoring with the ladies, but who was obviously homosexual and usually played by Tony Randall, whose appearance here lends his tacit approval to Reed's sendup.
Love's romantic rivals are the twinkly Renee Zellweger as New England author Barbara Novak, and Ewan MacGregor as Catcher Block, a swinging, womanizing cad whose columns for a leading men's magazine have made him a Manhattan celebrity. It's 1962, when cardboard skylines, expensive fashions, and ornate sets resembling the Jetsons' interior decorating were the norm and Madison Avenue was ruled by cigar-smoking, middle-aged white men. Barbara's first book is Down With Love, a how-to book for women on how they can achieve equality both inside and outside the bedroom by eating more chocolate and having more casual sex. Arriving in New York, where she becomes friendly with her man-hungry, wisecracking, sophisticated editor Vikki (Sarah Paulson), the small-town writer becomes an immediate sensation.
Catcher is ordered by his fussy friend and boss Peter (David Hyde Pierce) to interview Barbara for a cover story. But since his sex life has taken a beating after Down With Love was published, he decides to turn the piece into an expose by disguising himself as a Texas-bred astronaut to tempt Barbara to fall in love with him and thus force her to betray her book's advice.
Screenwriters Eve Ahlert and Dennis Drake have an obvious affection for their sugary storyline. Even when they're parodying it, as in a cleverly staged split-screen phone conversation between Zellweger and MacGregor, there's no condescension.
Zellweger is, of course, a perfect choice for the role. Her cheeky countenance and white-bread purity suggest both the innocence and an underlying subversion necessary to make the end of the movie work. MacGregor was a surprise to me; while not the chiseled presence that Hudson and Garner were, his catlike prowl and Scottish burr make up most of the difference. Paulson, who appears to have studied a few Eve Arden movies, is the next Elizabeth Perkins or Bonnie Hunt if she wants to be. And Pierce, who has patented the fastidious is-he-gay sidekick in his Emmy-winning role on Frasier, amps the camp up a notch or two and steals the picture from his co-stars.
The technical trappings give Down With Love its peculiar verisimilitude. The old-fashioned Cinemascope logo that introduces the credits, Jeff Cronenweth's sumptuous Technicolor cinematography, and the snappy orchestral jazz score composed by the perfectly cast Marc Shaiman all add to a meticulous and slavish devotion to period detail. Not of the real 1962 New York, mind you, but of its depiction in the Movie Universe. Which, thanks to this movie, is still a fun place to visit.
(Running time 1:40, rated PG-13)
Grade B+


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I first encountered earn-a-buck regulations when I moved to Wisconsin several years ago. Previously, I had never encountered this management technique that forces hunters to shoot an antlerless deer before "earning" the privilege of killing an antlered buck. As I read through the regulations booklet, I found myself questioning the intense practice.
I have since come to embrace earn-a-buck. In fact, I think it's an invaluable tool for wildlife managers. Sadly, I've also watched pandering politicians and selfish, or uninformed, hunters pull this tool out of the Wisconsin deer managers' toolbox. At the same time, other state and municipal wildlife managers are exploring EAB, experimenting with it, and perfecting its use in areas of extreme deer overabundance.
The key concept to understand with EAB is that it is different than most techniques used for increasing deer harvest. Increasing limits, lengthening the seasons and liberalizing hunting methods can all boost deer harvest. However, the increase is limited by the number of hunters and those hunters' harvest threshold (how many deer they will kill to meet their personal needs). With hunter numbers in decline across the country, the best way to increase deer harvest is to increase the remaining hunters' harvest threshold (plus provide them with the limits, seasons and methods to reach that threshold). That is what EAB does. It encourages hunters to adjust their harvest threshold by providing the incentive of an antlered buck. It's like a bounty system that doesn't cost the state or municipality money.
The problems with earn-a-buck are twofold: First, many deer hunters who are uninformed about their roles as managers and land stewards are resistant to any effort to lower deer numbers. That they have been "spoiled" by years of herds over carrying capacity and do not understand the impact of over abundant herds doesn't help. Second, many hunters are wary of EAB because they (and statistics do bare this out to a point) are afraid it will cost them their "one chance" at an antlered buck if the buck appears before an antlerless option.
The advantages are: Foremost, EAB is the most effective way to increase antlerless harvest given a stable or declining hunting force. In addition, it has been shown that EAB increases the ratio of mature bucks in the population, which is an advantage for those seeking larger antlers. Part of this increase might come from that sometimes real disadvantage of missing out on a chance at a mature buck. More often though, hunters in EAB regulations become more selective with their buck harvest after they have an antlerless deer in the freezer.
I think one of the key adjustments to EAB regulations is allowing hunters the ability to "pre-earn" their buck authorization a year in advance. This allows hunters to eliminate that notion that they will miss out on their chance of a "buck of a lifetime," whether perceived or real. Duluth, Minn., which has one of the most successful municipal hunts in the country thanks largely to EAB regulations (in a state that typically does not employ EAB on a large scale, I might note) recently sought to require the harvest of two antlerless deer first. The measure was struck down. However, had they allowed pre-earning, perhaps the outcome would have been different.
I'm sure managers will continue to explore this regulation in the future, fine-tuning it and modifying it for specific situations. In fact, because of its extreme nature, its cost/benefit structure and the increasingly disparate distribution of whitetails, it might be best suited for small-scale management rather than statewide regulations. However, it is important for hunters to completely understand this management tool if they are to understand their roles as managers.


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Whereas strength training provides variety as you move from machine to machine and work different muscle groups, endurance exercise sessions require a lot of time doing the same movements and maintaining a sustained effort level. Basically nothing changes from the beginning to the end of the aerobic activity period. I've noticed that most regular endurance exercisers don't even look at the video displays that provide performance feedback during the workout. Instead, they cover the display with their newspaper, magazine or towel, so that they can't see how much time they have yet to exercise. Generally, they are doing the exercise because they know it is physically beneficial, but they do not find it mentally interesting.
Although there are occasions where a relatively steady pace is essential, such as running a 5K or 10K race, there are more interesting and effective means for conducting your exercise sessions. My preferred approach is known as interval training, and it provides almost unlimited variations in workout designs.
Basically, interval training involves interspersing more demanding and less demanding exercise segments within the workout. The training variables include (1) how hard to make the more demanding intervals, (2) how easy to make the less demanding intervals, (3) how long to make the more demanding intervals, (4) how long to make the less demanding intervals, and (5) how many intervals to perform.
For example, instead of treadmill walking at a steady 3.5 mph pace for 30 minutes, you may try 5 intervals of 6 minutes each. Let's say you begin with 6 minutes of slower-paced walking at 3.0 mph to warm up. You then perform 6 minutes of faster-paced walking at 4.0 mph. Because this is a more demanding pace than you normally do, you follow-up with 6 minutes at the more relaxed 3.0 mph pace. As this permits plenty of recovery time, you can now complete another 6 minutes at the faster 4.0 mph pace. Finally, you cool-down with another 6-minute segment at the slower 3.0 mph pace.
Overall, you have accomplished about the same workout as usual, namely, 30 minutes of treadmill walking averaging about 3.5 mph. However, the 2 faster-paced segments actually enhanced your physical development by requiring a higher work effort than your body normally produces, even for a total of only 12 minutes.
Perhaps just as important, you should find the interval training workout more mentally stimulating due to the variations in walking pace. Many people prefer interval training to steady state exercise because it places a different perspective on the workout duration. For example, when you keep the same pace for 30 minutes, it may seem that the time passes very slowly. However, when you perform higher-effort intervals, you may find that the slower-paced recovery intervals pass almost too quickly and that the total workout time seems considerably shorter than usual.
In the previous treadmill walking example, the harder and easier intervals were equal in duration, 6 minutes each. However, as you become better conditioned, you may make the higher-effort intervals longer and the lower-effort intervals shorter. Consider the following interval training approach to a stationary cycling workout in which the more demanding segments are twice as long as the less demanding segments:


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The 14th season of The Bachelor premieres on January 4 at 8 PM on ABC, and ABC has now released the photos of the 25 bachelorettes vying for the love of Jake Pavelka.
The Bachelor: On the Wings of Love will begin with the 31-year-old commercial pilot from Dallas, TX arriving at the same Malibu mansion where he first met Jillian Harris, who rejected him during The Bachelorette's fifth season earlier this year. As we reported earlier, Jillian and fiance, Ed Swiderski, will be on hand to assist Jake in picking the right women on the premier episode.
In a new interview with USA Today, Jake promises a very dramatic and rocky season. "I can tell you from the get-go, it is a very rocky and dramatic season," said Jake. "Some of the things that happened on the show, drama-wise, floored me."
The question on everyone's mind is did he find love? But did he find love? "I don't want to ruin the ending," he says. But adds, "I stayed true to myself from the very beginning. I went in and said very honestly, if I find love I'll come out engaged. I didn't promise a ring at the end of this and stayed true to myself. I didn't necessarily do what everybody wanted me to."
Jake, 31, reveals that picking the right woman was a bit tougher than he anticipated, "Half way through the entire journey, I still had no idea whatsoever. It was cast so well for my temperament. I had a lot of romance. My heart went out to multiple women."
Interestingly, missing from the cast is Brittney Gammel. Brittney is the 25-year-old Learjet pilot from Franklin, TN, who had been cast to be on the show. That is until she prematurely revealed back in October that Jake had been chosen to be the new Bachelor. The problem was ABC had yet to formally make the announcement and was planning to do so 2 weeks later during a DWTS episode.
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In 1983 Edward R. Tufte published an immensely influential book entitled The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. The gist of the book is that graphing data is (or should be) a sophisticated art. If you want to convey useful information to your reader, you have to think about the presentation, not just slap data on a page any which way. Tufte's main peeve is with graphs that present data inefficiently or ineffectively, so that you look at them and don't really know what they're saying. A related subject is that the same information can be presented graphically in different ways to make different points.At right, I've shown a piece of the North America chart from the Light Pollution Atlas re-mapped to a conical projection. On looking at it, most people's first reaction is "My goodness, almost half of the U.S. is brilliantly lit." Whether intentional or not, that's a direct result of the colors chosen to represent different levels of light pollution. (From darkest to lightest, they're black, gray, blue, green, yellow, orange, red, and white.) The most prominent color in this map is green. That's not surprising, since the human eye is most sensitive to that color, and this is the greenest green that you computer monitor can produce, with all the green pixels firing at maximum, and all the other pixels turned off. To my mind, this is somewhat misleading. Logically, the colors ought to go from darkest to brightest. But the orange zone appears distinctly darker than the green zone, belying the fact that skies are in fact 9× brighter in the orange than in the green. Shown at right is a very minor tweak, using darker versions of green and yellow. This makes the colors more of a continuum, and it's also more faithful to the underlying reality. In fact, the typical reaction of urbanites or suburbanites on first visiting the green zone is that skies are darker there than they ever imagined could be possible. The differences may be more apparent in a closeup view. At right is an excerpt from the original map showing the northeastern U.S. and southeastern Canada. Detroit is on the left; Philadelphia and New York are near the bottom right of center; and Ottawa, Montreal, and Québec City (left to right) are above them near the top of the map. Prominently dark are the Great North Woods of Maine and the far greater woods of Canada. Less dark but also notable are the Adirondacks southwest of Montreal and the Alleghenies west-northwest of New York City. It looks as though New Yorkers have to go a long, long way to escape light pollution. Here's the same region using my revised colors. This more or less matches my perception of the Northeast. It's now apparent that there's an almost unbroken corridor of reasonably dark sky — green at the worst — running down the backbone of the Appalachian Mountains. It's a long drive to a gray area from Boston or New York, but there are pockets of green — areas where the Milky Way is very attractive indeed — not too far away. Here's a more drastic representation of the same data, which would probably seem appropriate to a typical backyard astronomer with little experience of dark skies. I've cranked green and yellow way down so that they look almost dark and boosted red to be a shade of white. Now the main contrast is between areas where the Milky Way is prominent (yellow and darker) and areas where the Milky Way is faint or invisible (red and white), with orange as a transition zone. This would be my guide if looking for a weekday observing site, where long drives are out of the question. Ideally, I would head for yellow or green, but in practice, I would just try to get out of red or white.
Which of these versions matches your perception of the light pollution around you?


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