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and the time that the council gets to speak has diminished and the questions from the judges have increed. is this a troublesome trend, in your eyes? >> my view on this has changed. [laughter] no, -- well, we are in our office on the bench. we are working hard to get answers to questions that we think are important to us, and there is a limited amount of time to be had. frankly, i do think we have gone a little too far. there have been moments particularly in this last term when i felt we were not being fair to the lawyers, not necessarily unfair to our colleagues. to many times when i was would add a question, the lawyer did answer, and we would jump in with what we thought was a good perspective, or just to change the direction of the dialogue entirely. there are some areas where we are trying to do things. for example i do not think it is quite appropriate -- we have a light that those are my new have five minutes left for rebuttal. it is not fair for us to start asking questions to eat into their rebuttal time when it wanted to save it. why improbably one of the prime offenders, but i