Personally I like the idea of pulling ideas together, as GG commented we can "respectfully disagree."  I have a different perspective though, because I can't contribute much to the numbers discussion, but enjoy trying to learn from the comments of others.  Hopefully I'm bound to pick up something just from reading the thoughts of others.

For example with the PDP finances, I took a look at CLL's Q3 2007 report and was wondering about Assets - Investment in Petrolifera = $34,747M versus Share Holder Equity - Equity interesnt in Petrolifera = $3.141.  I don't understand these differences but hopefully from paying attention here for a while I'll gain some understanding.

I'm also of the opinion Connacher could disseminate more information, but in my case I may just not understand well enough.  Also agree with another poster that what's really important is the bottom line performance.