Now Hear This!! This is your captain speaking. "Courage me lads, The ship is not sinking."

One or two days of market activiity does not a trend make. While the volume did pick up into the 20M's, it was not calamitous. Rcognize that it's a very thin market and thus subject to a lot of volatility. Beachmaster had suggested that yesterday's weakness was due to "maybe someone has a spy in Oman and can't find a smiling face." The absence of a follow through today negates that observation.

In the latest 8-Q (see Agora's Dec. 10 post, page 6), Frank states "My present expectation is---Final Meeting in mid -January---signing the DA by end of January." I'll go with that. I'll wait.

Courage me lads. Full Speed Ahead!