"There are too many shareholders with high costs to settle for anything less than $2."

And this is good for a company that had a SP of 7$ with a couple of holes in the ground....and that had gone from .40 to $3 a couple of summers ago? A company with billions in the ground having scratched only a small percentage of their holdings? Your perspective is precisely what the players have cultivated in the recent takeovers and market gloom and doom....people with low expectations willing to take a 5 bagger on a stock that had the crap beaten out of it....but only a five bagger if you bought in at it's lowest. The other takeovers on a massive scale will come the same way having been taken from a lowly flock of sheep that have become frightened from the cries of wolf, willing to grab what ever they are given and run, after the stock had already been manipulated into a position whereby those that took over had long since acquired via stealth, that which they needed to create a fait a complis. The games will have been completed before the masses even knew they started. Like in court....never ask a question that you don't know the answer to equates to... if you're out to take a company, never make the attempt unless you've already got it in the bag. SPQ, FWR, KWG....and oh yes....NOT. Yes it would have been nice to have R.N. able to continue. I think we would have had a decidedly different present tense.