Big Al,- thank you for breaking the silence; it was deafening! I honestly was thinking the Agoracom message board had broken down perhaps under the heavy usage leading up to the last delay. I can only speak for myself but I exhausted myself from the extreme use of adrenalin when I/we thought we had arrived at our promised land (Oman not Israel),only to be foiled again by government bureaucracy and PAPERWORK! I said it before and I'll say it again. We've got a "hunk" of paper----or excuse me --two "hunks" of paper (the updated deed AND the DA ) holding up the largest construction company in the world from turning loose the excavation equipment, and thousands of jobs. If you get a chance re-read one of the reports that explains just what Omagine is building. It's massive---2000 residential units, several hotels a marina, retail shops,theme park, boardwalk,an open air amphitheater etc.etc. The contractor has tons of work to do!--- So much for my ventilating.--- Al, I must compliment you on your most recent message.Your English teachers would be proud of you. Your original messages had "spell check"--which Agoracom doesn't include--"SMOKIN". Beside that, I had to enlist some of Great Britain's WWII decoding equipment to decipher much of it. But now my friend, I think you've got it down, --- BILL.