Looking at the future, who do you see the kingpins being? The US....cough, Canada......simply a vessel of commodities with politicians of little vision, India.....a contender, China.....pretty much. So who do you please? Who do you look towards for future employment? Pretty clear isn't it? It certainly won't be the N.A. shareholder particularly of the retail class. No point in even grouching about it as they hear you about as well as a whisper in a hurricane. If phone calls to NOT are accurate in their recounting, they don't want any sense that any sense is being conveyed to Joe phone caller that could be misconstrued as positive. If you want to get paranoid about it you might even glean that they don't want anyone waxing optimistic about NOT as it might be nicer to have retail selling. Well folks, I would say that this is one of the tell tail signals that are often talked about by the gurus that tell you when they want you out because they want your shares, and you... out so that they can get ready for the reversal... while those that threw in the towel wait it out to buy back in at a higher price. It's rather interesting that an I.R. staff should relay to investors that they're not going to tell you anything and have no intention of doing so. Wes seemed to respond to folks like Hoov, perhaps he might find the time to do a little digging at Wes. The rest of us amount to what would be called the inconsequential.