Thanks for your report BM. It's nice to hear positive things. I hope all of the good things you say find a place in in NOT's path going forward. There are a couple of things that come to mind that will always keep me skeptical however. I don't contest the vibe you get from these individuals and they may well deserve your acclaim. However, what occurs to me with these folks is that they are essentially protected and taken care of regardless of what happens to this company. They can afford to be optimistic with the options they've received without having had to buy on the open market. Now I can't presently state for a fact that they haven't bought on the open market to date, but last I knew there wasn't much evidence of that. Thus they can pick a time to exit or a target with shares that came easily at a time they determine the company may not be performing well, while the investor is left holding the bag. These gents may well be the ones to put money in my pocket, but at 25 hrs a month, bearing in mind all of the other options and bonuses they get for their other 25 hours's a month on other boards on other gigs, I'm not feeling particularly badly for them. They are like anyone in business, they flock to the opportunities to get what they can and then move on. If NOT didn't pan out they sell their shares and make some nice change and tell the investor, "well we tried, it just didn't pan out". I'm not going to trade on "feel good". We saw what happened to that with RN. We signed on for risk with buying NOT and others and no amount of warm and fuzzy makes a mine. We certainly have a team of select individuals but I don't know them and I have to wait to see if what's in the ground plus the management ability equals retirement. :)

There are so many valid theories and suppositions out there at the moment that we have an equation with way too many variables. I look forward to solving for a few X ,Y, Z values very soon.