this is just my humble thoughts on what may or may not happen. At this point Cliffs has Mac to help them acquire as many shares as they can, as cheap as they can, to get control of freewests assets. Now Wes has the" funds" on this side and our/my if your a noront shareholder. With the shares Cliffs is getting from Freewest and has already it will be hard for Noront to get the % of shares needed for total control. I do think Wes will give us NR's that will move our SP up and in turn will get 50 % of freewest . Now in january they will not only have votes to stop Cliffs , but at special meeting if i am correct you can have special votes, out with the old BOD and in with the new more consolidation freindly. Now i do not have a crystal ball but this routine of operation feels familure and to me has a possibility. And then the rest of the Ring gets consolidated. I think next year some time we get to find out who is the one that gets the King of the Ring ...... part of or all i am not sure,i hope just part.I dont think i would ever sell all my holding....dividends sound good for retirement. If anyone finds things in my thinking that don't work feel free to express them. greatfuly paliman.