Solo,

You are so good - did I tell you that before?

The reason that I backed off 5.5% was that there are always contrarians...even when you've taken a torpedo amidships, through no fault of your own...and the captain is saying: Boys, over the side, it is safer there! You think, as a contrarian - it ain't going down.

Well, I've picked up the remains of boys before in the chuck, and it is pretty unsettling seeing how the heat goes out of a man. I have stocks today where, in this time, the heat is going out of them too...and it feels really lonely watching them go down. So, this is why I said Unaminous - because a man would be crazy not to take a life-line when offered. I drowned once as a kid - and it sticks in my mind...but there are always contrarians, so OK.

Always know where the life-jackets and Scott-packs (breathing apparatus) are and always know how to put out a fire...you have nowhere else to go! SGV has a fire - the whole industry has a fire. You can put it out - but be still surrounded by water.

Here is a life-line. And one offered by some pretty savvy guys - I think they know the sea that we are in...and sure there was a deal offered that may rankle some - biz is biz...but do you want a chance or do you want the chuck?

I reckon that VIT will get its wings soon - and then we will start to rock (and we is the VIT/GTQ/SGV merger). It is so exciting - We have so many likely possibilities in this amalgam that it will be infinitely more interesting than Queen Victoria waving the pin and plunging it into the map - and saying: This will be the capital! More profitable too.

Be well.