My apologies if this post depresses some shareholders hoping for more."

That's the funny thing about life.... when you expect less of it ..... that's what you get. If the cos are sold for less it will be because some have done a lot of work at securing positions to make it so... with the help of a few weak hands and short term opportunists. We wait to see.

And there is always the flip side of the coin, where a few posters with supposedly golden credentials, will rant and rave and cajole the shareholders to hold on to the last, because there is always one more bid to come in, sand then conveniently disappear three days before the final vote. some examples would be JD, DP, and a couple of others that slip my mind at the moment.

K