NL, controlled is a little light! Predation, manipulation and intimidation more closely describe the corporate appetite. Practical learning from past experience clearly advises us not to swim with actual sharks. Many who succumb to the predator have failed to understand the subtle difference between corporate and corporal appetites. The sharks who ply their predation off the Great Barrier Reef are indiscriminate, while those on Wall, Bay and Howe streets while more selective, yield results often as catastrophic!

To quote a Wall Street legend, "The Great Whites of Wall Street only eat testicles, faint hearts, wallets, widows, orphans, cripples, gamers, players, pensioners, first timers, last timers, suburban moms, medicine men, preachers and puppies. (IMHO, somewhat indescriminate!)

Their appetites are genetically designed consume the whole enchilada!

NL, if you're on their list, walk softly and carry a big stigma!

With SAN's suitors seeming honest without seeming unseemly has been their mission! It seems to me they are beginning (have been for a while) to seem unseemly!

With every drill hole there is more at "stake!" So much for "free markets!"

Our only defenses are faith and discipline.

--Faith that in spite of their predation, manipulation and intimidation in the end our tenure will be favoured!

--Discipline enough to "hang tough" in the face of the Great White!

A tough assignment!

Ruf

Without predjudice