Monday 2-2-09

367, 278, 761, 348, 267, 467, 178, 378, 268, 288

661, 861, 751, 771, 760, 762, 248, 448, 338, 358

347, 349, 217, 415, 237, 456, 257, 277, 025, 052

301, 302, 401, 103, 111, 666, 222, 777, 333, 888

"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82."

- Dave Brubeck -

The battle is about to begin (3:30am EST) between Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer for the title of Australian Open Champion. I want Rafa Nadal to win, but Fernando Verdasco took him to a grueling 5 sets that lasted 5:14hm, which set an Australian Open record. With Rafa's blisters, sore back and jelly legs from that marathon, I may be disappointed.

Go Rafa!!!

Saturday 1-31-09

091, 604, 132, 684, 281, 168, 417, 127, 528, 108

101, 616, 566, 398, 317, 835, 872, 247, 905, 064

000, 111, 444, 666, 1027, 6754, 1054, 2277, 3388

Midday 1-31-09 Evening

** until 2-4-09 **

012 013 014 015 016 017 018 019 028 037 046 128 129 137 139 146 149 159 169 179 189 237 238 246 248 258 268 278 289 378 379 468 469 001 011 119 228 055 155 255 558 559 288 199

 "If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things."

- Henry Miller -

Yes, you heard right. Serena made good on winning the Australian Open in yet another odd year!! This brings her total to 4, down under. She now regains the Number 1 ranking in the world and has pasted Lindsay Davenport and Annika Sorenstam to become the all-time leading money winner in women's sports. Final score ................. Serena Williams defeats Dinara Safina 6 - 0, 6 - 3.

You go Girl!!!

Midday 1-31-09 Evening

** until 2-3-09 **

016  025  029  034  038  047  056  079  124  128  137  146  169  178  236  245  259  268  349  358  389  479  569  578  002  007  011  115  119  223  227  133  448  155  668  277  088  488  889  299  799

Midday 1-31-09 Evening

** until 2-3-09 **

012  017  026  035  039  048  057  089  125  129  134  138  147  156  179  237  246  269  278  359  368  458  489  579  678  003  008  116  224  228  233  044  449  255  066  669  188  588  399  899  111 

** Good until 2-6-09 **

2-4-5-22-29

3-5-6-23-30

4-6-7-24-31

5-6-9-24-35

 6-7-10-25-36

7-8-11-26-37

Friday 1-30-09

267, 124, 167, 769, 367, 257, 277, 266, 268

862, 684, 089, 398, 835, 301, 302, 401, 196

654, 809, 000, 999, 1046, 1045, 1064, 1054

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

- Abraham Lincoln -

Australian Throws Daughter Off Bridge to Death, Police Say

Thursday , January 29, 2009

A father allegedly threw his four-year-old daughter off a bridge in front of the girl's two young brothers and scores of motorists during rush hour in Melbourne today.

Witnesses said Arthur Phillip Freeman, 35, suddenly stopped his family car – which also had his two young sons inside – and, with young Darcey Iris in his arms, walked to the side of the West Gate Bridge, just after 9 a.m.

He then allegedly dropped his young daughter over the railing and into the water, 190 feet below.

Shocked drivers who witnessed the incident – which police say occurred in a matter of seconds – immediately called emergency hotlines as Freeman reportedly got back in the large white family Land Cruiser, and drove away.

Darcey miraculously survived the fall and was pulled from the water by police within 10 minutes and ambulance officers spent the next 50 minutes resuscitating her on the bank on the side of the Yarra River.

She was then airlifted by helicopter to the nearby Royal Children’s Hospital in a critical condition and treated for the next four hours.

The tragedy gripped Australia as it unfolded on television, with footage of paramedics frantically trying to resuscitate Darcey on the riverbank streamed during regular news bulletins with updates on the little girl’s condition.

Freeman was arrested by police an hour after the tragic incident when he was spotted, accompanied by his two sons, Benjamin, 7, and Jack, 23 months, in a “visibly distressed” state outside the Commonwealth Law Courts across town in central Melbourne. The family had been in the midst of a custody battle.

Security staff at the court said that Freeman was shaking like a leaf, and staring with wild eyes when they spotted him and alerted police. Police, initially unaware he was involved in the bridge incident, said they took him into custody peacefully.

As he was being led away, Freeman reportedly begged court staff to "take care of my kids.''

“He was pretty down and he had the two other children with him and he tried to enter the court. He couldn't talk to anyone, he wouldn't talk to anyone, he was just a mess,'' witness Vince Mascia told the Nine Network.

As Freeman was being questioned by detectives, Darcey died in hospital from massive internal injuries.

Her father was then charged with murder and set to appear before a criminal court. However he was deemed "suicidal" by psychiatrists and remanded in custody. He will next appear in court on May 21 for a committal hearing.

Officials open criminal probe in peanut recall

WASHINGTON - Federal health officials opened a criminal investigation Friday into the Georgia peanut-processing plant at the center of the national salmonella outbreak. President Barack Obama pledged stricter oversight of food safety to prevent breakdowns in inspections.

The investigation into Peanut Corp. of America follows reports of shoddy sanitation practices and inspections that found the company sold contaminated peanut products to food makers.

At least 529 people have been sickened as a result of the outbreak, and at least eight may have died because of it. More than 430 products have been recalled.

Until recently, federal food safety inspectors had not been to the Georgia plant since 2001. The Associated Press found that FDA interest in the facility was renewed, at least temporarily, after a shipment of peanuts from the plant was seized at the Canadian border.

The shipment, taken April 11, originated at the Peanut Corp. plant and was turned back at the border. The FDA seized the product after it was found to contain metal fragments.

The seizure was the FDA’s first hint that peanut products were being processed at the Georgia plant. At the FDA’s request, Georgia state inspectors visited the plant on June 10 searching for the source of metal fragments. State inspectors visited again in late October, records show. Neither inspection looked for salmonella.

A few weeks later, federal health officials saw the first signs of a salmonella outbreak. But it took more investigation to identify peanut products as the cause, and the public wasn’t alerted until early this month.

No samples taken
The June inspection focused only on the metal-fragment issue discovered in the shipment to Canada, said Domenic Veneziano, director of import operations and policy for the FDA’s Office of Regulatory Affairs.

“Working with the state of Georgia, at no time did we look at other issues” during that inspection, Veneziano said. According to state inspection records, relatively minor violations were found.

Inspectors took no samples of the peanut product for testing during the June inspection or during an Oct. 23 state inspection.

The FDA reported this week that federal inspectors who visited the plant since the salmonella outbreak found roaches, mold, signs of a leaking roof and numerous other sanitation problems.

Federal officials now say the plant had a salmonella problem dating back at least to June 2007. Peanut Corp. was under no obligation to tell the FDA it was making peanut butter at the Georgia plant, the FDA said Friday.

Stephen Sundlof, head of the FDA’s food safety center, said the Justice Department will investigate possible criminal violations by the Peanut Corp. plant.

The company shipped products that initially tested positive for salmonella after retesting and getting a negative result. The FDA’s investigations branch will assist in the probe.

Alarming revelations
In another development Friday, officials urged consumers to be cautious about “boutique” brands of peanut butter, which had not previously figured in the recall.

Although national brands of peanut butter are unaffected, FDA officials warn that some smaller companies may have received peanut products from the Peanut Corp. processing plant in Georgia.

“I think the revelations have no doubt been alarming,” said Robert Gibbs, White House press secretary. That a company which found salmonella in its own testing would continue to ship products “is beyond disturbing for millions of parents,” he added.

Obama plans to name a new FDA commissioner and other oversight officials in the coming days, and put in place a “stricter regulatory structure” to prevent breakdowns in food safety, Gibbs said Friday.

The peanut shipment confiscated in April was destroyed in November after back-and-forth efforts between the FDA and Peanut Corp. broke down and after the FDA rejected as “unacceptable” findings by a private lab hired by Peanut Corp. to analyze the company’s peanuts.

“The shipment was refused by FDA for filth” and destroyed, FDA spokeswoman Stephanie Kwisnek wrote AP in an e-mail. “The FDA did everything appropriately in handling the activities associated with this shipment,” Kwisnek said.

New questions raised
The FDA’s explanation Friday raises new questions about the adequacy of food-safety tests arranged by Peanut Corp. of its own products.

The FDA said it refused to accept the private lab analysis because of problems with the size of the sample tested, lack of information about whether experienced and trained workers conducted the test, and questions about whether the test could have detected certain types of metals.

“The new developments are disturbing and suggest that this company had extensive problems,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., whose House Energy and Commerce Committee plans hearings into the company’s actions and the government’s response. Senate Agriculture Chairman Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, also plans oversight hearings.

The FDA, citing internal company documents, said Peanut Corp. had hired a lab that conducted at least 12 positive tests for salmonella between 2007 and 2008 at its Georgia processing plant. The FDA said the company then used a different lab to retest the products, and those tests came back negative and the product was shipped to customers.

Evening 1-29-09 Evening

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