Questioning by Mr. Cole for the Plaintiffs in examining a table of capture radii per assessment period. I have no idea, and I would never do that. That would be inappropriate. You would be looking at distances that were occurring under different meteorological differences and at different points in time, that wouldn't be the appropriate to do. The susequent periods shows shorter calculated capture radii simply because the distance between infected trees is shorter.
Some discussion follows about exactly what is meant by preliminary report.
No, the report does not discuss the meeting that occurred in December 1998 in which there was a group of scientists, regulatory agents and growers present in a room and decided upon the 1900 feet. 1900 foot is not decided upon this, the manuscript or anything else, it was decided upon by a group, a body of regulators, scientists, the university scientists, as well as ARS scientists, etc. Since I was conducting the meeting and presenting the information, I did not take notes of minutes of that meeting. And since it was more or less an informal presentation to allow all of the gentlemen in the room to examine this data in detail, tear it apart from a scientific point of view, look at it very closely and come up with some recommendation over several hour period, I don't believe minutes were taken of that. Who decided who was going to attend this December 1998 meeting.