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"The child-snatcher-in-chief"
"In retrospect, the signs were there - that Roy would go too far," said Gillian Paterson, Sir Roy's former wife, and the mother of his two adult children.
"He found it everywhere. He was over the top. He saw mothers with Munchausen's syndrome by proxy wherever he looked."
"I wish that somebody could have said to him: 'Roy, they're not everywhere. They do exist, but they're rare'. I wish somebody could have stopped him."
"I can't go into details, but I'm sure he has a serious problem with women.
"Angela Cannings said the prison system had destroyed her family bonds and they had found it impossible to rebuild. The severance of the Cannings family on the say-so of one misguided expert witness meant that Jade became much closer to her father than her mother and she suffered from a condition called "separation anxiety".
Sally Clark said that, after her release from prison, she felt uncomfortable joining the other mothers at her surviving son's school, because there would always be a small proportion of society that prefers to believe the obsessive conduct of expert witnesses that used to pervade the realms of childcare and family Courts
Why an Expert Witness is in the Dock
News.Scotsman.com -Sat. 24 Jan 2004
Professor Sir Roy Meadow was credited with discovering Munchausen's syndrome by proxy, a particularly insidious form of child abuse. When he stated that one sudden infant death was a tragedy, two suspicious and three murder, until proven otherwise, his aphorism was dubbed Meadow's Law.
By appearing as an expert witness at the trials of mothers convicted of murdering their babies, he had helped jail some of the most repulsive criminals our society has produced. Or so we thought.
Over the past 12 months, Sir Roy has seen his professional reputation all but destroyed.
In January last year, Sally Clark walked free from jail when the Appeal Court overturned her convictions in 1999 for murdering her baby sons, Christopher and Harry.
In June, Trupti Patel was acquitted of killing her three youngest babies, Amar, Jamie and Mia.
And last month, the Appeal Court threw out Angela Cannings' conviction for the murder of her little boys, after 19 months in jail.
Sir Roy acted as an expert witness for the prosecution at all three trials.
Following Mrs Cannings' release, three Appeal Court judges ruled that a mother should not be convicted in cot death cases on expert medical opinion alone.
Now it is Sir Roy who is in the dock of public and professional opinion: the existence of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy is being questioned; Sir Roy is to be investigated by the General Medical Council, the doctors' governing body, and Lord Goldsmith, the Attorney General, is to examine dozens, if not hundreds, of criminal convictions to see if more mothers have been wrongly convicted of killing their children. Sir Roy has been vilified in the press, with one tabloid describing him as "the child-snatcher-in-chief".
Sir Roy's glittering medical career is shattered. But to some who have known him most of his life, there is a sad inevitability to the situation he is in now.
"In retrospect, the signs were there - in who Roy was - that he would go too far," said Gillian Paterson, Sir Roy's former wife, and the mother of his two adult children.
"He found it everywhere. He was over the top. He saw mothers with Munchausen's syndrome by proxy wherever he looked.
"I wish that somebody could have said to him: 'Roy, they're not everywhere. They do exist, but they're rare'. I wish somebody could have stopped him."
As the post mortem examination of the professor's career begins, questions abound. How many innocent mothers have been jailed because of the evidence he, and doctors who followed his theories, gave at trials which should never have taken place? How many children were wrongly removed from their parents at behind-closed-doors family law hearings, because sheriffs and judges unquestioningly gave credence to his beliefs? How did a man now so vilified rise to become a criminal prosecutor's expert witness of choice, a position which gave him unparalleled power to shatter so many lives?
And what is the character of this 70-year-old retired doctor, whose name will forever be associated with one of the most serious miscarriages of justice the UK has ever known?
According to his former wife, Sir Roy is a misogynist - a claim which will be seized upon by those who have accused him of conducting a witch hunt against innocent mothers. "I don't think he likes women," said Ms Paterson, a journalist and writer. "He's not gay. I don't think he's gay. But, although I can't go into details, I'm sure he has a serious problem with women," she said.
Samuel Roy Meadow was born in June 1933, the son of a chartered accountant from Wigan, Lancashire. His mother was a housewife, but according to those who know Sir Roy, her ambition for her son, and his elder sister, Pauline, was fierce.
"Roy's parents weren't wealthy," family sources have said, "but they were incredibly driven for their children to succeed. Doris, especially, was fantastically proud of Roy. But her affection was - I would say - conditional upon him doing well. Roy knew the score. He had to do well. Doris was very judging. Her children were her trophies in this rather dreary, small town."
After studying at Wigan Grammar School and Bromsgrove School, he won a place to study medicine at Worcester College, Oxford, graduating in 1957. While working as a GP in Banbury, Oxfordshire he became interested in child healthcare, and by 1980 he had risen to become the head of paediatrics at St James Hospital, in Leeds - one of the most prestigious posts in his field.
In 1961, Sir Roy had married Gillian MacLennan, the daughter of the British ambassador to Ireland, a match which must have rocketed him up the social ladder. Their children, Julian and Anna, were born in 1963 and 1965 respectively. Now, his former wife says that although popular with colleagues, Sir Roy had no close friends.
She also recalls how he would visit the Anna Freud Centre - Anna was the psychologist daughter of Sigmund Freud - for what she described as a "Bloomsbury-set" chats about child health.
In a bizarre coincidence, sources claim that Sir Roy starred in an amateur production of Arthur Miller's play The Crucible, playing the role of the discredited Judge Danforth who is at the heart of the witch-hunt that is the backbone of the play. "Roy confided in me that he found it an uncomfortable part because he identified with this judge more than he was happy with," a source recalled. "I always remember Roy playing that part. He was made for it. He was brilliant."
It was in 1977 that Sir Roy wrote the paper that was to change his life: "Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy (MSbP): the Hinterlands of Child Abuse."
In the study, Sir Roy described the cases of two sick children whose symptoms had left doctors puzzled.
It transpired that in the first case, a mother had added some of her own blood to her child's urine sample. In the second, the mother had allegedly poisoned her toddler with excessive salt doses.
Sir Roy wrote that both mothers were suffering from Munchausen's syndrome by proxy. The new illness took its name from Munchausen's syndrome - the term coined in 1951 by Dr Richard Asher (the father of the actress Jane Asher), in reference to Baron von Munchausen, the 18th-century German mercenary famed for his fabulous lies.
Munchausen's syndrome sufferers fake symptoms of illness and will travel from hospital to hospital to secure surgical and medical procedures for illnesses they do not have, simply to get attention.
Munchausen's syndrome by proxy is a more sinister variant of Munchausen's syndrome, in which parents - almost always the mother - replicate or even cause symptoms of illness in their children, simply to draw attention to themselves.
His findings were published in the Lancet medical journal, and attracted worldwide attention.
Ms Paterson recalls: "He took a lot of flak at the time. Nobody wanted to believe mothers did that sort of thing. Later [in 1993], he was vindicated with the Beverley Allitt trial (The nurse who murdered four children in her care and harmed a number of others). That's when they stuck him on a pedestal, made him the number one expert witness in the land, and proceeded to believe everything he said."
But it was in 1989 that Sir Roy coined the now infamous Meadow's Law, when he wrote in The ABC of Child Abuse: "One sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious and three is murder until proved otherwise."
It was this phrase, which captured the imagination of public and press when Sir Roy was called as an expert witness for the prosecution at the trial of Mrs Clark.
Mrs Clark was found guilty and jailed, but her conviction was overturned last year, after her husband, Steve, unearthed new evidence that the baby had a life-threatening infection at the time of death. It was Mrs Clark's case that was to turn the tide against Sir Roy. After more than 20 years as an expert witness, Sir Roy now stands accused of failing to provide a scientific basis for his claims.
Jean Golding, the professor of epidemiology at Bristol University, was originally asked to be a prosecution witness at the trial of Mrs Cannings. But her reading of the pre-trial evidence swung her to the defence.
In court she savaged Sir Roy's methodology, saying that 81 cases on which he based his outlook did not stand up to scrutiny, because he had no control group. (In fact, Sir Roy has admitted shredding the raw data on which he based his beliefs.)
Prof Golding told a Radio 4 File on Four programme in July 2002 that Sir Roy's statement "lacked scientific rigour" adding: "I called it stamp collecting ... you pick out the cases that you want to present and then you present them."
The Royal Statistical Society also wrote to the Lord Chancellor stating there was no statistical basis for Sir Roy's court claim that there was only a one in 73 million chance of Mrs Clark losing two babies in sudden and unexplained circumstances.
Shortly afterwards Mrs Patel was acquitted of murdering her babies - and now Mrs Cannings has seen her conviction overturned.
Presented with a situation of three mothers found innocent, the government has been forced to react, hence Lord Goldsmith's review. Thousands of other cases dealt with by local authorities are expected to be reviewed.
So how did Sir Roy maintain so much credibility for so long in our supposedly rigorous courts of law?
Dr Lucy Blakemore-Brown, a psychologist from Brunel University who has studied Sir Roy's work for some time, says juries and judges quite simply trusted a man whom society had rewarded by making him a doctor, professor and knight of the realm. Dr Blakemore-Brown also believes that Sir Roy's turn of phrase has played a crucial part in his credibility in court.
She says: "One, two, three, ABC ... 73 million to one.... these are phrases a jury can understand amid the foreign language of the court - but why did the judges not realise Sir Roy had no science to back his claims?"
Whatever the questions hanging over Sir Roy now, he has undoubtedly enjoyed widespread respect among his peers. A number of colleagues have jumped to his defence in recent weeks.
Harvey Marcovitch was a paediatrician for more than three decades and is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Health Care and a member of the General Medical Council of the UK.
He suggests that a simple case of supply and demand may have helped Sir Roy become a pre-eminent expert witness: there is a limited number of paediatricians; those practising are unlikely to be able to clear two or three weeks of their diary to give evidence at a trial; of those, many will not be experienced or expert; many are reluctant to risk the public scrutiny of a case in which they have no need to get involved.
Dr Marcovitch explains: "You are left with few expert witnesses. Then, if one performs well in court, the lawyers will employ him for their next trial. The word gets round that this guy is good, and he is called again and again. So he become known as the foremost expert witness in his field - it's sort of a self-fulfilling prophecy."
Dr Marcovitch is in no doubt that Munchausen's syndrome by proxy exists. He points to a recent study of UK paediatricians carried out by the British Paediatrics Surveillance Unit, which found that doctors were discovering between one and two cases of the syndrome annually per million head of population. He adds: "I do not think you will find a paediatrician who does not believe MSbP exists. But it is rare, and over the years the term was used to describe a wider and wider range of things. For example, Beverley Allitt did not have MSbP as suggested at the time - she was a killer."
It was because of concerns about the increasingly blurred definition of Munchausen's syndrome by proxy that the Royal College officially dropped the term in 2002. It now uses the terms "fabricated" and "induced illnesses".
Sir Roy was not answering the telephone at his home near Leeds, yesterday, where he lives with his second wife, Marianne.
Whatever the GMC and Attorney General's investigations discover, it will be painful for all involved.
In the past, Sir Roy was applauded for thinking the unthinkable, and he has no doubt rescued some infants from abuse. But far from being a children's champion, he may have simply championed his own cause - at the expense of truth.
Pivotal evidence now deemed 'manifestly wrong' and 'grossly misleading'
Over the past five years Prof Meadow's evidence was pivotal in the trials of three women:
• 22 November, 1999: Angela Cannings was arrested and questioned about the death of her four-month-old son.
• 26 November, 1999: Sally Clark is sentenced to life imprisonment for killing her two baby sons in 1996 and 1998. Prof Meadow gave evidence to the effect that any more than three cot deaths in one family could be construed as involving murder.
• 16 April, 2002: Angela Cannings is jailed for life at Winchester Crown Court after being found guilty by a jury of smothering her two sons.
• 29 January, 2003: Sally Clark's conviction is quashed as the appeal judges condemned Prof Meadow's claim that the chances of having two cot deaths in one family was 73 million to one as "manifestly wrong" and "grossly misleading", and express concern that key evidence was not put before a jury.
• 12 June, 2003: Trupti Patel is acquitted of killing her three babies. During the case, Prof Meadow gives evidence, and a small group of protesters attempt to distribute leaflets questioning his credibility.
• 10 December, 2003: Angela Cannings is freed after the Court of Appeal overturned the verdict on the ground that the convictions - which were based on Prof Meadow's research - were "unsafe".
'The prosecution lines up their expert witnesses, the defence lines up theirs. If you want to get to the truth, having such an adversarial system, with one set of doctors pitted against the other, is hardly the right way to go about it.'
Meadow told the jury that unexpected deaths - cot deaths - are not caused by any genetic factors. This is just plain wrong. When a baby is born, it is protected by the mother's immune system. As the baby grows, Mum's immune system fades away and the baby's switches in. But if the gene is faulty, then the immune system doesn't kick in - and the baby is prey to any infection going.
Dr David Drucker and his team at Manchester University found the faulty gene in 2001 - or part of it: if a mother has a particular form of the IL-10 gene, then the child is several times more likely to suffer a cot death. Drucker's faulty gene and what Meadow told the Patel jury don't square. One has to be wrong. Drucker told BBC 5Live Report in 2001 that Meadow's Law is 'scientifically illiterate'.
"Dr Williams took post-mortem cultures from the stomach wall, both bronchi, both lungs, the trachea, the throat, and, most importantly, the cerebro-spinal fluid. Staphylococcus aureus was present in all of the sites."
Professor Morris of the University of Lancaster (subsequently) concluded that the possibility of infection arising after death could be excluded, as "Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is normally sterile". The presence of a pathogen is therefore highly significant. There is no evidence that staphylococcal organisms could get into the CSF after death. The fluid contained a number of polymorphs [white blood cells], showing there had been a reaction to the organism and therefore that it was present prior to death."
Professor Morris noted that "overwhelming staphylococcal infection... is a very serious and potentially lethal disease. It can progress so quickly that death occurs suddenly without obvious pre-existing illness. It is a recognised cause of sudden and unexpected death in infancy. This is natural disease." On the basis of the evidence now available, this was the most likely explanation of Harry's death. He emphasised that "no other conclusion could be sustained."
The Clark family sent the new material to Glyn Walters, a retired consultant in chemical pathology. He, too, concluded that Harry's death was due to "a disseminated staphylococcal infection". In fact, in his post-mortem report on Harry, Dr Williams categorically stated: "There is no evidence of acute infection... there is no evidence that this child died as a result of natural disease." In the light of the new material, this is now in doubt.
"The jury were aware Dr Williams's findings were the subject of much criticism," said Michael Mackey, Clark's lawyer. "They never knew he had commissioned tests which showed, at the least, a potential natural cause of death to which he made no reference [in his evidence].
BBC Radio5 Transcript - John Sweeney
15 July 2000 - "73 million to one" - http://portia.org/chapter10/SallyR5.htm
These cot-death convictions are just plain wrong
Today we raise the possibility of an appalling number of miscarriages of justice. Sally Clark's recorded voice: "I now face the minute-by-minute torture of life imprisonment, knowing I did not harm my little boys." Paul Sykes: "That sentence is not rigorous. It's just wrong. You have lost faith in the British judicial system?" - "Absolutely. My faith in the system is just destroyed."
The discovery of a cot death gene this spring means that innocent mothers who have suffered the unbearable pain of double cot deaths may have been jailed for murders that never actually happened. Recorded voice again: "I'm Sally Clark. I'm 36 years of age. I'm a solicitor. I have been married to Stephen Clark, who is also a solicitor, for nearly 11 years We had three children, all of them boys. Christopher, my first-born, and Harry, my second little boy, are no longer alive. My third son is nearly two-and-a-half years old. I am able to see him, just the two of us, for one wonderful day every month."
That was the haunting voice of Sally Clark, now in prison serving a double life sentence for the cruellest crime imaginable, murdering her own baby boys, Christopher, aged three months, and Harry, aged two months. She could spend the rest of her life in prison for the double murder she says she did not commit. When she was found guilty in November 99, the papers had a field day. They ran claims that she was a binge drinker, none of which had come before the court. The Sunday Mirror: "Fall from grace for the woman with everything;" the Daily Mail, "Driven by drink and despair, the solicitor who killed her babies;" and the local evening paper, the Manchester Evening News: "Pregnant days after murdering baby son."
It was a classic media witch-burning. Steve Clark, Sally's husband, who stood by her: "Reading the newspapers, how they reported her after the conviction you would think Sally Clark was a witch. Well, she isn't, 90% of what was said in the newspapers was totally and utterly untrue." Sally's first child, Christopher, was born in September 96 and died three months later. At the time he was certified to have died naturally from a lung infection. Her second child Harry was born in November 97 and died in January 98; the next month, Sally was arrested for murder. She was accused of smothering baby Christopher and shaking baby Harry to death.
At her trial Professor Sir Roy Meadow told the jury that there was only a one in 73 million chance of Sally having two cot deaths, an event, he said, that would happen once every hundred years. It was a devastating sound-bite and the jury convicted her ten to two. Professor Meadow is the inventor of Munchausen's by Proxy, the controversial theory that some mothers harm or even murder their babies to seek attention. We asked him to appear on this programme but he declined. He has, however, given a rare interview to an American film maker: "You just have to recognise there are some mothers and fathers who have enormous difficulties, often through no fault of their own, who do terrible things to their children but as a paediatrician you don't hate them, you hate what has happened to the child. Sometimes it makes me physically sick when I get involved with a case. I'm just not eating. I vomit. I'm so upset."
Sir Roy has been knighted for his services to the study of child abuse. He was the first president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health and is the author of The ABC of Child Abuse, the leading textbook in the area. His mind-set is encapsulated by the following saying, quoted in this book: "One sudden infant death is a tragedy, two is suspicious, and three is murder until proved otherwise. A crude aphorism but a sensible working rule for anyone encountering these tragedies."You could call "unless proven otherwise two is suspicious and three is murder" Meadow's Law.
No-one is suggesting that mothers never kill their babies, but Professor Meadow's crude aphorism is now used as a rule of thumb by doctors, police and social workers. It risks tarring all mothers who have suffered multiple cot deaths as murderers. It presumes guilt, not innocence. And the presumption of guilt kicks in at the very moment a second cot death occurs when an innocent mother would be going through unendurable pain. Mothers like Sue Sale: she lost two babies to cot death in the 1980's before Meadow's Law had become established wisdom.. She picked up her baby knowing he was dead, knowing he was the second to die. "I didn't want to have to let him go because I thought, if I ring people they're going to try and take him away, and I couldn't believe that this could have happened again to me. It was the most awful, dreadful, shock."
The deaths were investigated but Sue Sale was never charged. After all, she had done nothing wrong. Since then the climate has changed dramatically. Professionals are advised, be suspicious and think dirty. Is it possible that today the odds could be stacked against an innocent mother who has suffered two cot deaths but has not harmed her children in any way? In the Sally Clark case the forensic evidence was hotly contested and this was a murder trial where, let us remember, the standard of proof ought to be beyond reasonable doubt. Enter Meadow's sound-bite of one chance in 73 million for two babies dying naturally. Prosecuting barrister Robin Spencer asked Sir Roy, "So is this right? Not only would the chance be one in 73 million but in addition in these two deaths there are features which would be regarded as suspicious in any event?" And Sir Roy answered: "I believe so."It was a smoking gun statistic. In one sound bite you had a compelling case against Sally Clark.To get to the figure family circumstances are factored in. A single-parent smoker is more likely to suffer a cot death than a middle class family like Clark's. So you arrive at a figure of one cot death in 8,500 in a family like Sally's. The Clarks suffered two deaths. Professor Meadow multiplied 8,500 by 8,500 and arrived at the chance of one in 73 million.
"It is to Probability Theory the equivalent of what to arithmetic would be saying that two plus two equals five" - Dr Stephen Watkins, Director of Public Health, Stockport. He was so troubled by Professor Sir Roy Meadow's evidence that he wrote a damning critique in the BMJ. "I felt I had to write that. The way Sir Roy Meadow had used statistics was completely wrong. He had calculated the probability of one specified individual having two cot deaths. The actual figure he should have calculated was the probability of some person having two cot deaths." It may not happen to you, yes, but it will happen to someone. "I'll give you an example. The probability of me winning the lottery this Saturday is very low. But the probability of somebody winning the lottery this Saturday is quite high. And what Sir Roy is doing is exactly the equivalent of saying that whoever wins the lottery must have committed fraud because of the low probability of that individual winning the lottery."
Dr Watkins has a vivid memory of where he was when the news broke of Sir Roy's sound-bite "I was actually having a dinner with three other public health doctors at the time that we heard this figure reported on the television and the reaction of each of the four of us was that this is a misuse of statistics. This is wrong. This is not correct evidence." Dr Watkins' is not a lone voice. Peter Donnelly is professor of Statistical Science at Oxford University. He points out that a key issue was whether Sir Roy was right to multiply the risk factors of the two deaths to get to the one in 73 million number. "It is only valid statistically to multiply the numbers if it has been established that whether or not one child dies in a household of cot death is completely independent of whether or not another child dies in the household. In order to present that kind of number in court one should have evidence that establishes that independence." By independence Professor Donnelly means that for the one in 73 million number to be right the two deaths have to be proved to be wholly unconnected. For example, that there were no environmental factors in common. "It's just wrong scientifically to multiply those two numbers together unless the independence has been established. If it hasn't, then it's at best speculation and depending on the circumstances of the case, possibly extremely misleading. It's poor science." How rigorous is it? "Unless the independence has been established, it's wrong. In that sense it's not rigorous, it's just wrong."
So the Crown's case contained a hidden contradiction. Sir Roy would have had to assume that the two deaths were not connected but the two deaths were connected . . . so said Professor Meadow to the court. Sir Roy was having his cake and eating it. The defence did not use an expert statistician to challenge Sir Roy's figure, intent as it was on attacking the forensic evidence. This decision may have cost Sally Clark dear. But how could a distinguished scientist like Sir Roy make such a mistake? Dr Stephen Watkins: "I think he has used techniques which lay beyond his expertise." Dr Watkins' article in the British Medical Journal which attacked Sir Roy's use of statistics was called "Conviction by mathematical error?" Professor Sir Roy Meadow has not replied to the attack. No statistician we have contacted has said that the one in 73 million figure in the way that Sir Roy used it is defensible. The damage to Sally Clark was that it presented to the jury, confronted as it was with a mass of complicated conflicting forensic evidence, a simple but false certainty.
Last October the Court of Appeal turned down Sally Clark's first attempt to clear her name. The court ruled that the 73 million figure used at the criminal trial was a sideshow. But Five Life Report has been told by a source that one juror has said, "Whatever you say about Sally Clark, you can't get around the one in 73 million figure." In May this year the Solicitors' Tribunal met to decide whether Sally Clark, a convicted double murderer, should be struck off. Normally this would be a rubber stamp This is part of her plea, presented at the tribunal on video tape: "I was advised before my trial that if I put in a plea of infanticide I would probably serve no term of imprisonment. I am where I am today because I could not tell any lies. I did not lie then and I cannot lie now even if it would procure my immediate release." The solicitors' tribunal decided only to suspend her. This unique decision reflects growing anxiety about the soundness of her conviction. Others are convinced a great wrong has been done. Frank Lockyer is Sally's father; he is a retired divisional commander of Wiltshire police. "There is a photograph of her standing there with her mother. There's a photograph of them both with her first child, Christopher. People who look at photographs and videos of Sally at the time with her children say we don't want to see any more; the body language of relationships . . . I mean to say, if that woman . . . I can't tell you . . . could murder that child. It's ridiculous. I'm sorry, but it's just ridiculous. You know, she'd have to be a monster. She's no monster."
Brian Lowry is emeritus professor of medical genetics and paediatrics at the University of Calgary, Canada. What does he think of Meadow's Law? "I think that's frankly wrong, and most misleading and it's time someone challenged that viewpoint. In transcripts he's quoted as saying that each death has the characteristics of unnatural causes, which is enhanced by the fact that two deaths have occurred about the same age in one home. Well, that could just as easily be genetic and to quote that in the prosecution, I think, is shocking." Dr Ian Rushton is a retired paediatric pathologist with 40 years' experience carrying out autopsies on infants. He was called for the defence in the Sally Clark case. "I feel very uneasy about the problems that mothers who lose two or three babies have at the moment, because they are basically in a situation where they have to prove their innocence by obtaining medical information to counteract a theory. The problem is that there is as present knowledge stands no such evidence."
Enter the University of Manchester: this year they announced "Cot death gene identified." Scientists looked at the DNA of 23 babies who died from cot deaths or sudden infant death syndrome - SIDS for short. They compared it to the genetic make-up of normal babies. In some cot death babies they found a common gene. "The microbiology we did finding that babies with cot deaths more likely to have bacteria that produced poisonous substances such as toxins is what actually made us think of particular genes." Dr David Drucker, Reader in microbiology at Manchester University, and one of the team that tracked down the cot death gene. Dr Drucker has been working on cot deaths for 15 years. The others include Prof. Ian Hutchinson and a husband-and-wife team of scientists who have suffered their own cot-death tragedy. More discoveries will follow. "In terms of applying it to cot death it's almost as though we had opened a door to a new room and we have really just taken one step inside it at the moment and we're waiting to explore what is that room."
What does Dr Drucker think of Meadow's Law, that unless proven otherwise, two is suspicious and three is murder? "I would say it is really scientifically illiterate, because as a microbiologist in particular I can think of all sorts of diseases connected with bacteria where, if one member of the family is ill, you can't just assume that for any other member the odds are the same as they were for the first person who was ill. We know from experience that every time there is a flu epidemic, if one person is ill, it is actually more likely that another member of the family would become ill." So what is the significance of the discovery of a cot death gene on Prof Meadow's smoking-gun statistic? Professor Lowry: "I think it is absolute rubbish to say the one in 73 million chance because in fact Sally Clark's second chance might have been as high as one-in-four so the way they misused the statistic is atrocious." A chance of one-in-four as a statistic is at the extreme end of the scale where both parents carry the cot-death gene, but it is possible. More likely are odds hugely less remote than one in 73 million. The cot death gene provides fresh evidence that speaks not to murder but to innocence. It turns the Sally Clark case inside out; what was black becomes white.
The implications for justice of Manchester University's breakthrough don't just stop with Sally Clark. That's because Prof Sir Roy Meadow testified for the prosecution in many criminal trials and family courts. I asked paediatric pathologist Dr Ian Rushton what happens if Meadow's Law is wrong. "Well if the theory is wrong, then obviously there would have to be a total rethink and presumably all the past cases would have to be reviewed."Until now Meadow's Law is a criminal theory, to which there has been no easy way out. " From the jury's point of view there are three things that happen. First of all, there is a mother in the dock; what is she doing there if she didn't do anything wrong? Secondly, there are two dead babies; the mother cannot deny that. And thirdly there is a learned professor who says either these deaths were not natural or they are murder. Now that effectively shifts the burden of proof straight on to the mother. What I believe the jury's common-sense reaction is, if she can prove that she did nothing to her babies we'll let her off; if she can't she must be guilty."
How can a mother defend her innocence? "It is medically impossible, absolutely impossible, to prove that a baby has not been smothered. Think about that for a moment. You can never prove that a baby has not been smothered."Sally Clark is not the only alleged killer-mum who was jailed with the help of evidence of Prof Sir Roy Meadow. Donna Anthony is also serving a double life sentence for murdering her two babies. She is in Durham Prison. She was convicted on forensic and character-witness evidence which again was contested. Donna Anthony, who had an appalling childhood, is no Sally Clark. She is not a solicitor and cut a desperately poor figure in the witness box. Roy Meadow told the jury that there was a one-in-a-million chance of the two babies dying naturally. He testified: "Natural cot death has an incidence now of about one-in-a-thousand. So the chance of natural cot death happening twice in a family is one-in-a-thousand times one-in-a-thousand which is one-in-a-million. It is extraordinarily unlikely, and of course neither of these two deaths fitted the criteria of what most experts would call cot death or sudden infant death syndrome." The method Sir Roy used to arrive at one-in-a-million is the same as that used in the one-in-73 million number - the difference being that Donna Anthony was a working-class smoker. And that
method is just plain wrong. George Hawkes was Donna Anthony's solicitor "I still worry about it now, and it's nearly three years on. that there was not any direct evidence that she had done anything to her children; there was not a single mark on them and pathologists said they couldn't find any cause of death, and five years before that, that would have been the end of the matter. It's really only the advent of Prof Meadow coming in and being involved in a number of these cases that Donna Anthony seems to me to have been caught up in a snowball effect where - I don't want to make light of it - it is almost becoming fashionable to prosecute in these particular situations. It's a sort of gathering force." Five Live Report knows of a third case, but we can't give any of the details. Prof Sir Roy Meadow's evidence as well as other testimony led to the family losing all four children to care. Because of a family court gag on the media we cannot interview the parents. We know of many other cases as well.
Susie Sale has followed the Sally Clark case and others very closely, and now champions their cause. She believes that what happened to them happened to her. "I think about her quite often, actually, because I know that there but for the grace of God it could have been me in that situation, and I know how awful I felt losing those boys and what a terrible, terrible thing . . . it's such a blight on your life; your life is never the same again." What about this principle which is supposed to be in British justice of reasonable doubt? "I wish we could think they took that into account. There wasn't any concrete evidence, I think, that says that she actually killed those children." Because if the one in 73 million statistic is true - "then I killed my children and I know I haven't. My husband knows I haven't killed my children, my family, my relatives, the whole town where I live, know it. I know now there was nothing I could have done to prevent what happened. I didn't miss an illness or whatever. So I'm at peace with myself but I think that if I was in another town, another part of the country, I could have been in that situation."
For the friends of Sally Clark, the discovery of a cot death gene provides hope. John Batt [the solicitor who represented her before the solicitors' tribunal]: "Genetics was never a factor at Sally's trial. The discovery of a new gene in Manchester is entirely new, it is fresh evidence, and it is clearly at a very early stage in its development. I have no doubt that genetics will play a very large part in Sally's application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission." Five Live Report has put a series of questions to Sir Roy Meadow about his theory, his one-in-73 million sound-bite and Meadow's Law; he declined to take part in this programme. Had the jury known in the case of Sally Clark that instead of Sir Roy's evidence that there was a one-in-73 million chance of her babies dying naturally it could conceivably have been one-in-four, would they have convicted her? "If it can happen to us, what chance has an ordinary couple in a council estate got? or a single mother in Brixton got?" If Meadow's Law is fatally flawed then there has not been one miscarriage of justice but a great number, ruining the lives of dozens of people who have been in prison or had their babies taken from them for nothing more than having the wrong genes. Perhaps Home Secretary David Blunkett might consider this: That the law should approach grieving mothers with a new, crude aphorism: that, in the absence of compelling evidence of murder, one cot death is a tragedy, and two is a tragedy, and three is a tragedy.
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This town is developing as a Bolivian resort on Lake Titicaca, although it has a long way to go. Lots of foreign tourists, although same old story, no Americanos. The closest thing to an American I encountered was a guy that slept on the sidewalk outside of our hotel. I thought a picture of him and his dogs would be sort of a cute human interest shot, so I asked him if I could take his picture. His response, "Cool, man." I said, you speak English? He did, perfectly. As we spoke, I found he is a Bolivian that attended Washington State University in the early 80s and was there when Mt. St. Helens erupted. He now apparently lives on the street, for what reason, I don't know. He has five dogs that he takes care of. They appear to be very loyal. Other than that I could not discern any other critical aspects of his life. We talked about Bolivia and Washington. When I left, he said, "I know it would be hard for you, but if you want one of my dogs, you can have one." We continue to find that people with the least to give are always very generous. (Pictures of the dog riding on the back of my motorcycle to follow.)
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English Premier League defending champions, Chelsea, were beaten 3-2 by Burnley in their first match of the season at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.
Reduced to 10 men and 3-0 down at the break against a team they hadn't lost to since 1971, Chelsea did rouse themselves in the second half, playing with real vigour to push Burnley back.
Antonio Conte might not be happy with the lack of discipline shown by his senior players, but the spirit and fight shown by his side should be a positive sign, although Chelsea must avoid these self-inflicted wounds in the future.
Instead, his studs caught the Belgium midfielder on the shin and while it was accidental, it was also reckless and referee Craig Pawson immediately brandished the red card.
Captain Cahill was sent off just 14 minutes into the game as Burnley went on rampage, scoring three goals in the first half.
Matt Lowton's right-wing cross found Vokes and he sent a bouncing volley into the far corner, with Thibaut Courtois unable to get across in time.
Chelsea had their first real chance at goal 11 minutes in when Cesar Azpilicueta's low cross was deflected and almost sat up for Willian to fire home in the centre of the goal. "The sending-off made a difference and I thought we did really, really well to handle that and keep the ball and create chances", he said.
With the man advantage, Burnley took the lead on 24 minutes.
With the clock winding down, David Luiz connected with a flick from Morata and pounded the ball into the goal for Chelsea's second of the game. At the hour mark, Alonso's freekick was kept out by Burnley's goalkeeper, Tom Heaton.
Chelsea, which won 17 of its 19 home games last season, became the second straight team to begin its league title defense with a loss, after Leicester last season.
While he will have been consoled by the sight of Alvaro Morata getting on the scoresheet on his debut and Luiz's thumping volley late on, Conte has been left with plenty to ponder ahead of their next match against Tottenham.
"They opened up the pitch even more with 10 men, which put us on the back foot a little in the second half, but that's to be expected".


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An analysis of health insurer Cigna's Education Reimbursement Program (ERP) shows every dollar the company puts into the program is returned and generates an additional $1.29 in savings—a 129 percent return on investment. Lumina Foundation, a national foundation focused on increasing postsecondary attainment partnered with Cigna to design the study, which was conducted by Accenture, a leading global professional services company. Read more here:


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Sam Amidon is the son of our friends, Peter and Mary Alice Amidon. I've know him since he was a little tike. He has matured into a fabulous musician and has created his own unique sound, reinterpreting and transforming old folk songs into something magical. If you want to know more - go to his website http://www.samamidon.com/ and you can hear Sam in an interview on NPR's Morning Edition (wow!), and also hear samples of his new album, Bright Sunny South. The concert we went to was his album release concert. It's great!
And oh yes, we bought a new car!!! A Subaru Impreza. The buying part was sort of a traumatic experience for us naive folks, but we are enjoying the car. It doesn't quite feel like "us" yet, especially after years of trips in the Corolla with the front seat taken out to give me more leg room. But this car has lots of leg room as it is, and it has some features new to us - like an input port for the computer and iPod. (It does not have a GPS however. It has Bluetooth, but our cell phone doesn't. Someday).
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Monica S. Castelhano (Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) and John M. Henderson (Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland) published some interesting research demonstrating the power of proper color. They tested various scenes to see how quickly people processed the "gist" of it and then whether that processing was enhanced purely by the use of color or it it was the use of "proper color." They tested abnormally colored blurry scenes, normally colored scenes and monochrome blurry scenes. The results? Proper color matters.♦
Our brains register the colors in the pictures and link the colors to our expectations of how it should be. Colors supplement and strengthen the structural information we absorb. In 42 milliseconds, our eyes can receive an image and send it to our brains. Our brains can then manipulate this information, and activate schemas that rely on a network of stereotypes that help us make sense of it all. Color, in effect, allows our brains to be more efficient and allows us to function better and react faster in any environments we may find ourselves. Hooray for color --- and for psychology.
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The Anzac Day dawn Memorial Service from Villers-Bretonneux, France.
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Peter Singer, Tim Costello and others debate over how aid to poor countries is best spent in 'One Just World'.
A horrifying account of the brutal war that's raging on the border between Mexico and the United States. BBC's This World reporter Katya Adler reports from the frontline of the conflict involving rival drug gangs and the Mexican government.
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New Year Fear
It's that time of year again to start thinking of those New Year's resolutions. Winter has always been a time for looking back to the past and forward to the coming year. However very few of us actually stick to our resolutions. Here are five of the top New Year's resolutions you'll be most likely to make this year and how to stick to them.
Keeping Fit
We've all been there wanting to lose the extra pounds we've put on at Christmas. Finally using that gym membership that's been collecting dust the past year. However, through the year a lot of us give up on keeping fit and go back to our old habits. Setting reasonable goals and staying focused are the two most important factors when it comes to losing weight and keeping fit. Stick to a healthy weight loss programme or fitness regime and you'll see a difference by the end of the year.
Quit Smoking
If you have decided it's time to stamp out your smoking habit there are plenty of ways to help you nip it in the bud. There are over-the-counter nicotine replacements such as nicotine patches and chewing gum that have been proven to help with those cravings you get when trying to quit. Even if you have tried to quit in the past and failed, don't let that get you down. On average, smokers try about four times before quitting for good. There are also free support services and hotlines to help you stop smoking for the new year.
Travel More
Wanting to travel more and see new places is tempting especially if you're stuck in a rut. Travelling is one of the most common resolutions you hear about. At the start of the year you should make a reasonable list of places you would like to try and visit that year, whether it's a two-week holiday abroad or a day out somewhere. You should be sure to be specific to where you want to go because vague ideas rarely get done, but attainable goals are something you can work. You could even make it more fun by travelling with friends or family and share new experiences together.
Get More Sleep
As students it's hard to get sleep when you've got such a busy lifestyle trying to cram studying and partying in the week. However, sleep is one of the most important things you can do for your well-being. Many of us stay up into the wee hours and wake up before we are fully rested. You should try following a circadian rhythm by getting to bed early waking up early. Other things you can do to help are cutting down on caffeine before you settle down and even doing some sort activity to make you tired before you go to bed. Making small changes like these will help improve your sleeping pattern and you'll see a difference right away.
Save More Money
Saving money can be hard but it is important to save and put money away for a rainy day. Putting away a small amount each week or each month can add up over the long run. This will help when you need some spending money when the unexpected happens instead of having to scrimp by till pay day. Try not wasting your money on things you don't need just because the money's there and put it away for when you will need it, whether that's having to pay to get your phone fixed or booking an out-of-the-blue trip with your friends.


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This current virus is a new subtype of influenza A(H1N1) that is not previously detected in swine or humans, and it spreads by human-to-human transmission. The symptoms are similar to seasonal flu like nasal congestion, cough and sore throat, fever, body aches, headache, chills, fatigue. So, how do we avoid it? We should stay in good health so that our body is strong enough to fight the virus. We should have enough sleep every day, eat fruits and vegetables, we drink plenty of water or fluids, manage stress, and avoid close contact with other people who are sick.
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My Senior year of college my roommates and I found ourselves locked inside our apartment. It was like our own little escape room, free of charge. Except there were no riddles to solve and we had to wait inside until someone from maintenance freed us.
Let me tell you how I found out about the situation. Now, before I start with the story, I would just like to mention that at the time I was working for campus security. It was a wonderful job but called for some overnight shifts so my sleep schedule was pretty out of whack.
At about 8:30 that morning banging and sawing sounds woke me up. Somehow I knew immediately the sounds were coming from the front door or our apartment and I was positive it was being broken into. So what do I do? I scrambled out of bed, which was far from easy from the top bunk, grabbed the closest weapon I could find and charged into the kitchen ready for anything.
In my head I looked menacing enough to stop whoever was breaking in and I was properly armed. In reality, I simply looked like an idiot dressed only in underwear and a large T-shirt wielding a plastic lightsaber. Although I probably did look a little terrifying since I had been awake for all of 30 seconds and I am not a morning person.
Before you ask, no this is not the first time I made a fool of myself. I once wore a shirt inside out all day without realizing it. Sometimes I feel like it was almost like training for this part of my life. If I could look unflinchingly in the eyes of the guys I drooled on during a flight to Missouri or walk away with my head high after punting a security alarm at a museum in Australia I can totally navigate my twenties.
If you haven't picked up on it yet I am a bit of a walking disaster. But that's what this blog is for right? Don't worry I promise to share success stories as well.
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I found this interesting article when I was looking through the pile of newspaper over the past week. An analysis of the type of guys that ladies in their 30s can select from. Hmm... why didn't the author do an analysis for the type of ladies whom guys can select too. Haha... some journalist might write it.
Its quite interesting to know that the author has classified ladies into segments of: 1) ladies who are content to be single, 2) ladies who have given up due to past experience (single-but-given-up group), 3) ladies who do nothing and hope some guy will make the move first (single-but-secretly-hoping group), 4) ladies who are seek partners and approach dating they do their job.
There are 5 categories of men that ladies in their 30s can search their partner in.
1) Fathers of young kids
2) Younger men seeking financial security
3) Older divorcees seeking fresh lease of life
4) Married men
5) Single men
If I'm a lady, I'll rather narrow down my selection to the group of 1, 3 & 5. I'm actually curious to find out why ladies would select from groups 2 & 4. This group is a much higher risk group of guys and chances of being hurt can be very high. So if the relationship doesn't end well, these ladies might fall into the group 2 category (single-but-given-up category) after repeated failure.
My take is that younger guys, yes they can be very fun to be with but thinking of the long term, if the guy just only wanted to have fun and financial security, ladies will be the one to lose out in the long run. A couple coming together is not only about fun but more of going through the trials in life together. Succeeding in these trials hand-in-hand together can be more enriching and fulfilling than having fun. But I can say that if ladies are able to find younger men who are fun and willing to go through the trials together would be a great blessing. But how many such guys are there? I guess everyone knows the answer.
Married men a good choice for a partner? Wow... it seems like the lady is not ready to commit. I believe there are lots of single guys but just that many single guys are not very appealing (maybe not fun to be with, not good enough, etc). Read on a chinese newspaper recently that one guy who was a director in a company drove dangerously to stop another vehicle driven by "love rival". He came out begging, hitting the car, etc in hope to win back the lady's heart. These 2 guys are actually married men with family and children. More parties got hurt in the end. I believe this lady is quite pretty and fun to be with, that's why both guys would rather give up their families to seek the feeling of having "fun". But is it truly fun? The meaning of fun refers to a source of enjoyment, or pleasure. To the lady, it might be fun but to the guys, its definitely not fun as consequences have already surfaced.
To conclude, I'll rather hope ladies will market themselves to towards groups 1, 3 & 5. Because I believe ladies can seek companionship from these groups and find someone who'll be able to love them truly and sincerely.
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Less than two weeks ago, our new house was nothing more than a concrete slab.
Today, check it out...fully framed, windows in, the beginnings of a roof up.
The construction manager said the roof should be fully shingled in a few days. Estimated completion date: August 29th (at the earliest).
Also, we're doing an open house this weekend trying to sell the old house, so keep us in your prayers!


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Saturday, August 22, 2009
season preview
The season kicks off today, officially. Hopefully, we are going to forget the horrific pre-season and start anew. Its definitely a season that promises a lot. A lot of fear, anxiety and trouble. Some say that I am being pessimistic. Others say nothing.
Going by the previews of websites I refer to, the implications are more than just implications. The writing, if not on the wall, is certainly up on the sites. Most believe that we will have a sub-standard season, and might finish 5th-6th in the table. Am I one of them? I might be. There are reasons for my apprehensions. Beside a rookie coach, and a hopelessly pathetic squad of players, we are not willing to understand the crisis we are in. We have been to the Serie B and also finished 11th in the league. But those times were different. Football has become more of a business than ever before. And in a time like this, penny pinching clubs can't promise their fans silverware. I was certainly skeptical about the 'City' model. But look at them today! They are one of the strongest clubs in UK. Just two seasons ago, they were battling at mid-table. But with Pres. Silvio around, I don't see many Euros floating about for purchases. If we finish 5th /6th as many predict, we could see the beginning of a fall of one of the greatest football clubs the world has seen. And no, I am not over-exaggerating.
When I look at the fixture list, I see we have a reasonably balanced set of fixtures, until Dec. That is when things will start heating up. In the months of Dec and Jan, we would be playing the likes of Sampadoria, Palermo, Fiorentina, Genoa, Juventus and Inter. Our run in, matches with the one we had last season. Our last few games are against Fiorentina, Genoa and Juventus. And as I see it, it will be during this time that we would battling for that much wanted 4th spot. Our squad is remarkably thin. Considering the quality of our medics at the MilanLab, and also the fitness of our players, we will be struggling half way into the league. I can't comment on Europe, just as yet. The groups haven't been drawn, but to see us in the Quarter Finals would amaze me. Coppa Italia is possibly the only trophy that we could win, but I sense the favorites to the Italian Cup are Palermo and Genoa.
Coming to the players department, there is a lot of pressure on Ronaldinho to step into the illustrious boots of Kaka. He will most inevitably not fulfill those responsibilities. And the sooner Leonardo realizes this, the better it is for him and for the club. It is comforting though, that Leo doesn't expect too much from the has-been. Players to look forward to are Silva, Abate, Pato and Huntelaar. Silva is shaping into one of the finest defenders in the country. Abate has shown a great deal of enthusiasm and quality in pre-season, and I would like to see him in the first team more often. Pato needs to step up and take up a pivotal role in this team. Under Leo, we will see more of him, that I am sure of. Huntelaar is the goal-machine we have waiting for since Shevchenko's treachery. And if provided with the service, Huntelaar won't emulate Gilardinho. The first team is not star-studded, no. But it has the ability to beat any team on the planet on its given day. I am certainly not pleased with the pre-season, who is? And Leo doesn't infuse confidence in me. But only a blockhead could write off this team. I am quite sure that Europe is awaiting to see how Milan will respond to all the criticism that has come the club's way. There are two possibilities in this situation. Either our season would be an utter disaster, or we could stupefy the rest of Europe. Forget the Scudetto, forget the Champions League. If we finish above 4th in the League and compete for Coppa Italia, it will leave me with a pleasant smile on my face.
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Secret Tatonka Files: The GM interviews, part 3
Well, the Tatonka Think Tank just keeps spitting out messages from the future, whether we like it or not. (If you get SPAM from the future, who is the originator of the spam? And is it still a non-refrigerated, meat-like product? But I digress....)
Here is a new one, hot off the, uh, presses. Preliminary analysis suggests that this transcript happened (will happen?) chronologically after part 2, but there is no date. Indeed, we get only the middle of a conversation, with no clear beginning and no end, and what appears to be a big chunk missing from the middle. Whatever caused it, it WASN'T ME LOADING THE FAX PAPER IMPROPERLY, MAN! Ahem. On to the fragmentary transcript:
...think you can just...
Mr. L: I don't have to "think" any such thing. I know it. Now let's get down to business.
V: There will be no one to hear you scream.
Mr. L: Just the spirit! As you may have determined from the manner of your appearance here, we seek to hire you for a rather dastardly job...
V: Did you say 'dastardly?'
Mr. L: Why, yes, I did.
V: Where am I, anyway?
Mr. L: That's not important right now. In any case...
V: I insist...
[a good portion of the ensuing transcript, of indeterminate length, is, uhh, missing]
V: Am I going mad, or did the word "think" escape your lips?
Mr. L: That's hardly the way to address me, sir. Let's be civilized here...
V: I am expected to deduce from your torture that civilization is one of your dominant traits? Forgive me if I have failed to reach that utterly and in every other way inconceivable conclusion!
Mr. L: We've started badly. We simply want to put you in charge of our organization...
V: If by "in charge" you mean "under your thumb without adequate compensation," then I agree.
Mr. L: You agree to the contract?
V: No, you moron!
Mr. L: I'm no moron. I'm in charge of a multimillion-dollar, moneymaking enterprise that depends on sophisticated...
V: You ARE a moron, like many before you. Do you really think you're the FIRST to come up with or carry out such a childish scheme? I could have seen through it at the age of three.
Mr. L: You're that smart, are you?
V: Let me put it this way: have you ever heard of Plato, Aristotle, Socrates?
Mr. L: Yes.
V: Morons.
Mr. L: Really? In that case I challenge you to a battle of wits.
V: For my freedom?
Mr. L: [Nods]
V: To the death?
Mr. L: [Nods, fingers crossed behind back]
V: I accept.
Mr. L: Excellent. Here's the challenge: answer correctly, and you are free to go. Incorrectly, and you're sworn to serve as our next General Manager.
V: That makes no sense.
Mr. L: You're trying to trick into giving away something--it won't work...
V: Ask your question; you've already supplied the answer.
Mr. L: Alright, here it is. We spent several hours earlier going over the rules of baseball and the roster and financial situation of our club; with your prodigious intellect, surely you can deal with a specific, but hypothetical, question?
V: It's your challenge.
Mr. L: Fine, fine. Here it is: how do you convince the fans of the merit of a trade of two young players for an aging player who can't really play the field anymore, is expensive enough to prevent us from making other desirable moves, and would not be a suitable candidate to DH even if he were health--particularly because the DH position is the single easiest batting position to fill, and many other options continue to present themselves that are cheaper in both talent and money to acquire?
V: What are the names? I have already mastered your quaint little game.
Mr. L: Uhh, hypothetically, say, Chris Snelling and Emiliano Fruto for Jose Vidro.
V: [guffaw] Inconceivable!
Mr. L: Keep in mind that this is merely a test. We would, uhh, NEVER do such a ridiculous thing. [Sweats more profusely]
V: This is a trick question. Therefore, the right answer is as clear as day...
Sadly, the transcript ends abruptly, right here. One of the crack Tatonka technicians thought that a later scrap of paper shooting out of the now violently ill fax machine contained something meaningful, but it is not really clear what "pse dragged out of ro" is supposed to mean.


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Legal Status
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Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.
Extension of approval of an information collection; comment request.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this notice announces the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's intention to request an extension of approval of an information collection associated with regulations for the importation of fruits and vegetables.
We will consider all comments that we receive on or before February 22, 2005.
You may submit comments by any of the following methods:
- EDOCKET: Go to http://www.epa.gov/feddocket to submit or view public comments, access the index listing of the contents of the official public docket, and to access those documents in the public docket that are available electronically. Once you have entered EDOCKET, click on the "View Open APHIS Dockets" link to locate this document.
- Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies of your comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. 04-123-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your comment refers to Docket No. 04-123-1.
- E-mail: Address your comment to firstname.lastname@example.com. Your comment must be contained in the body of your message; do not send attached files. Please include your name and address in your message and "Docket No. 04-123-1" on the subject line.
Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on this docket in our reading room. The reading room is located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.
Other Information: You may view APHIS documents published in the Federal Register and related information, including the names of groups and individuals who have commented on APHIS dockets, on the Internet at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/webrepor.html.Start Further Info
For information on regulations associated with the importation of fruits and vegetables, contact Ms. Jeanne Van Dersal, Senior Import Specialist, Phytosanitary Issues Management, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 140, Riverdale MD 20737; (301) 734-6653. For copies of more detailed information on the information collection, contact Mrs. Celeste Sickles, APHIS' Information Collection Coordinator, at (301) 734-7477.End Further Info End Preamble Start Supplemental Information
Title: Importation of Fruits and Vegetables.
OMB Number: 0579-0136.
Type of Request: Extension of approval of an information collection.
Abstract: The Plant Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 7701-7772) authorizes the Secretary of Agriculture to regulate the importation of plants, plant products, and other articles into the United States to prevent the introduction of plant pests and noxious weeds.
The regulations in Subpart—Fruits and Vegetables (7 CFR 319.56 through 319.56-8) authorize a number of fruits and vegetables to be imported into the United States, under specified conditions, from certain parts of the world. These fruits and vegetables include cole and mustard crops from Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Peru; rhubarb from Guatemala; parsley from Israel and Nicaragua; salicornia from Mexico; mint and rosemary from Nicaragua; Swiss chard from Peru; cantaloupe, honeydew melon, and watermelon from Brazil and Venezuela; Belgian endive, chicory, and endive from Panama; pineapple from South Africa; and peppers from Spain.
Before entering the United States, all of these fruits and vegetables are subject to inspection and disinfection at their port of first arrival to ensure that no plant pests are inadvertently brought into the United States. These precautions, along with other requirements, help ensure that these commodities do not introduce exotic plant pests, such as fruit flies, into the United States.
The regulations require the use of certain information collection activities, including the completion of import permits, phytosanitary inspection certificates, and fruit fly monitoring records.
We are asking the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve our use of these information collection activities for an additional 3 years.
The purpose of this notice is to solicit comments from the public (as well as affected agencies) concerning our information collection. These comments will help us:
(1) Evaluate whether the collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, including whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our estimate of the burden of the information collection, including the Start Printed Page 76448validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the information collection on those who are to respond, through use, as appropriate, of automated, electronic, mechanical, and other collection technologies, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
Estimate of burden: The public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 0.7322 hours per response.
Respondents: U.S. importers of fruits and vegetables and plant health officials of exporting countries.
Estimated annual number of respondents: 822.
Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 2.2311.
Estimated annual number of responses: 1,834.
Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 1,343 hours. (Due to averaging, the total annual burden hours may not equal the product of the annual number of responses multiplied by the reporting burden per response.)
All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of public record.Start Signature
Done in Washington, DC, this 14th day of December, 2004.
Elizabeth E. Gaston,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
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2017 Novato Space Festival
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- Date: 08/06/2017 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
- Location: The Space Station Museum/Pacheco Plaza's "Center Stage"
464 Ignacio Blvd
Novato, California
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Family-fun for all ages at The Novato Space Festival on Sunday, August 6 from 10am-4pm at the Space Station Museum, 464 Ignacio Blvd in Novato. Admission and Parking are FREE!
Meet legendary astronauts, including: Al Worden, Jerry Ross, Nicole Stott, Bruce Melnick, Dan Bursch, and Novato's Own Yvonne Cagle! Check out 30 different space exhibits and activities.
Families with children 12 and under get early admission at 9:30am and get to attend a special book reading by Astronaut Jerry Ross in the museum Moon Room at 10am.
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The alarm goes off. You roll over, rub your eyes, and see your running clothes all laid out, ready for your morning run. And then you hear it: The steady sound of rain on the roof. Moment of truth. What do you do?
If you are like I was during my first year or so of running, you roll over and go back to sleep. If you are slightly more motivated than that, you jump on the treadmill or find a different workout for the day. But I'd like to make a case for Option C: Go for a run anyway.
It's true, back then I totally avoided running in the rain. Imagine my surprise when, the day of one spring 5K rolled around and … gasp … The forecast called for RAIN?!? What do I wear? What would happen? It seems funny now, but at the time I was in a little bit of a panic. As to what would happen, the answer was simple: I got wet. (Oh, and I PR'd along the way.)
From that day on, I realized it was silly to avoid running on rainy days. In a place like Cleveland, it was a completely impractical way to train. Juggling my schedule around days that were "nice enough" to run outside totally messed up any semblance of a training plan I tried to follow.
And besides, running in the rain was actually kind of, well, FUN! It's a little bit like splashing in puddles when you were a kid. Even a slow run in nasty weather gives you a sense of accomplishment, a victory in the battle of man vs. nature. The sound of the rain hitting the leaves is like a round of applause saying, "Good for you! You got moving when you could've stayed in bed!" And you will probably get nods of mutual respect from any other runners you pass. A little street cred, if you will.
Want to get in on the action? Here are my top tips for rainy day runs:
* Dress for the Weather
Cotton + Water = Miserable. Now is the time for tech fabrics that wick moisture, and preferably a waterproof outer layer that still breathes. Don't forget a hat with a brim or a visor, to keep the rain out of your eyes. If you tend to chafe, wet clothes will make it worse. Vaseline or BodyGlide is your friend!
* Adjust Your Goals
You may not be able to go as fast or as far as you'd planned. Your wet clothes and soggy shoes can weigh you down. The rain could be accompanied by a lot of wind resistance. Don't fret if you don't quite hit your goal. Make the best of it, and realize that anything you accomplish is still more than if you'd never gotten out the door in the first place.
* Misery Loves Company
Schedule your workout with a partner or group. You are less likely to flake out on a run if you have a friend or two waiting for you. You will definitely find out who in your posse is hard-core by asking them show up "rain or shine" … and you won't want to be the wimp who begs off!
* Prepare For the Finish
Have a hot beverage ready at the end of your run, perhaps a Thermos in the car. Get out of your wet clothes as soon as possible. At the very least have a blanket or towel to wrap up in, plus a dry pair of socks and shoes, for the drive home.
* Take Care of Your Shoes
Place some loosely crumpled newspaper inside your damp shoes. It will help absorb the moisture, and you may need to switch it out for fresh paper a couple of times. Find a warm, dry place to leave them. Hopefully you have a couple of pairs of running shoes, so you can take them out of rotation for a day or two until they're back to normal. (Not a problem for most runners, who tend to be shoe-a-holics anyway.)
So the next time you hear the pitter patter of rain drops on your window, don't despair. Take your usual run and just add water!
The author is a wife, mother, and solidly average "middle of the pack" runner from Northeast Ohio. Check out her new Twitter handle @MileageMama: https://twitter.com/MileageMama


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From the subtleties of speech to signs and symbols, sending and receiving information from the world around us is second nature.
Play and experiment with all the different ways you "get the message" in this hands-on exhibit. Try your hand at virtual cave art, create a coat of arms, puzzle over expressions, send a message in Morse code, and more!
Get the Message was designed by Discovery Center of Rockford, IL and the Family Museum of Arts and Sciences of Bettendorf, IA as part of the Traveling Exhibits At Museums of Science (TEAMS) collaborative, funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation.


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Nag iPhone App ReviewFrom Tracy and Matt:
Nag is a very simple app that is very useful when it comes to reminding you of certain tasks that you need to do. Simple and straight forward. If I had to give it a score out of 10, I would say 9/10.
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Our Teachers and Assistants
From left to right – Poppy Gerakas, Kerry Anderson, Michelle Hughes, Angela Broeren and Justine Wickham
Michelle Hughes, 3 Year Old Teacher (centre)
"I've worked as a kindergarten teacher for over 30 years in a variety of settings and locations, both in Australia and Papua New Guinea. I've been at Eltham South for 20 years, and our co-educators have been associated with the kindergarten for over 15 years which makes for a very stable and supportive teaching body. Having completed some years of Steiner education training, and music education, these have contributed to enriching the program for the children here at Eltham South Preschool. It is a pleasure to come to work at Eltham South Preschool each day!"
Justine Wickham, 4 Year Old Teacher (far right)
"I have worked in the early childhood industry for over 20 years. I love helping children to develop resilience, determination and kindness. It is important to me to encourage children to develop life skills through role play, meditation, discussion and fun. I am so excited to be teaching with an amazing team of educators in a beautiful setting."
Our Community
Eltham South Preschool is not just for kids! Families play a big part in making it such a special place. Parents can help during kinder sessions and there are times when parents, grand parents and special friends are invited along to join the class.
We have events for families throughout the year: a welcome brunch, working bees and the annual Spring Fete are just some of the ways families meet and stay in touch. Why not come along to our Spring Fete in October to get a feel for the community at Eltham South Preschool.


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Pure Pedantry : Why Pairing Science and Atheism is High-Brow:
In 1922, John Dewey, pragmatist philosopher and champion of Progressive education, wrote an article in The New Republic entitled "The American Intellectual Frontier." The subject was William Jennings Bryan's attack on evolution that would later culminate in the Scopes trial. The argument that Dewey made was not what you would think, however. Though he was most definitely part of the the Northeastern liberal establishment at the time, he did not dismiss Bryan's attacks as indicative of rural ignorance. Instead, he made the argument that while he disagreed with Bryan, liberals had to take him seriously because if they did not they were in danger of making liberalism high-brow. This would have the negative consequence of making liberalism a minority movement by definition and prevent the adoption of a their social program.


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They're going to be so excited to have their lips sparkle and shine! Amazon is offering this Emoji Super Sparkly Lip Balm with case for only $6.99! This has their favorite emoji characters on each lipstick and carrying case. Keep in mind, Amazon pricing can change at any time! Don't wait to purchase this deal or it might be gone when you come back!
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Good stocks to day trade
During a typical session traders can expect two to three million shares to change hands.The snapshot charts allow me to quickly see if a pattern looks attractive to me.
Day Trading Rules and Leverage - TradeKingInstead of the old stock market theory of buy and hold, we see an opportunity to buy and sell over and over again.
I previously subscribed to your service and found that, by and large, it worked.Our network of expert financial advisors field questions from our community.I make 2 good trades and a bad trade in 3 days. net 0 same stock.
I read your case study on how to double your money with Aapl options in 27 days, which you illustrate by your trade.Trading on margin is only for sophisticated investors with high risk tolerance.This is my third buy and the previous 2 buys netted me over 20% profit on each in just a few weeks.
These stocks are of potential interest to day traders because they provide liquidity and significant daily percentage price movements each day (usually).
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Channeling Stocks.com provides stock charts each week for our members.
Stock Market Analysis - Day Trading Stock BlogHey, Penny stocks, also known as cent stocks in some countries, are common shares of small public companies that trade at low prices per share.How to select the best stocks for day trading will teach you.No matter what the overall market condition is - we will ALWAYS find you stocks in a channeling pattern.
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Low volatility days typically see the price move 4% between the high and low, while higher volatility days see moves of 10% or greater.A margin account must be used in order to borrow funds and or day trade.
The stock is shortable, but a high short interest can make the stock hard to borrow some days.
Why is Learning to Day Trade So Damn Hard?
When is the Best Time of Day to Trade Forex? - dailyfx.comFrom there I plan to narrow down my target list by studying the fundamentals of each company.I have never had such good customer service anywhere else on the internet.Most day traders like to trade in stocks which have liquidity. it is usually a good idea to.This stock which was of no interest earlier in the day is now a good candidate to trade on the.A good day trading stock can typically be traded for several months or more before conditions change enough to consider trading something else.We post 12 new selections every week that are at, or near their support levels - just like this one.
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Hannah Hays and her stepbro are in big trouble for doing bad on their report cards. Not only did they get grounded, but father also took away their phones. How the hell will these rambunctious teens entertain themselves? Hannah became super bored after only a few hours and made her way into stepbros room. She asked him if maybe he would want to play truth or dare with her to pass the time. Stepbro was down, and things started getting real creepy real quick. First stepbro dared Hannah to sit on his lap, then Hannah dared stepbro to give her a hickey. Before we knew it the hormones were uncontrollable and stepbros cock was in Hannah's mouth. Stepbro even went further and penetrated Hannahs tight virgin slit. She never felt a cock in her vagina before and it felt beyond amazing. Just as they were about to finish up, Dad knocked on the door to check in. Stepbro was able to still get his cock sucked while he told dad to get away, leaving him with just enough time to orgasm and supply a load directly into Hannah's mouth. We dare you to find a scene hotter than this!
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From the wishful thinking department.
Remote Year is a program for singles (and couples without kids) to spend a year working remotely while they travel around the world. They spend something like a month in each country, and all the logistics are handled by the organization.
Pretty cool, right?
So I was thinking, what if there was a Remote Year for families? Instead of a cohort of 50 singles traveling the world together, what if it was a mix of 10-12 families of 3-4 and 10-12 attached teachers and caregivers to ensure the children got a real, lasting benefit?
Suppose it was $1,600/month per parent and $400/month per [ school-aged ] child—and 100% free for the teachers and caregivers who tend to the children so the parents can work.
We're already well on our way to paying teachers nothing at all. The least we could do is give them a trip around the world with a small, manageable class size, and actually engaged parents.
If you can make it work, tips are appreciated. Lulz.