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To: TobagoJack who wrote (6203)	5/9/2006 11:50:44 PM
From: Canuck Dave	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217648

Evening Jay, got a question for you. As our "man on the ground" in China, you hearing anything from your mainland business associates on how China will extricate itself from losing dollar holdings? They just going to write them off as the price of industrialization? CD

To: TobagoJack who wrote (6203)	5/11/2006 3:32:16 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 217648

TJ, indeed, reality has gone the wrong way over a couple of days [for me]. I consulted our accountant and was about to consult a tax lawyer to ensure what I was planning was a good idea. Unfortunately, he has been away for a few days due to a bereavement. He who hesitates is lost. I was mistakenly operating on "Look before you leap". Competing proverbs leave me in a dilemma. QCOM has taken a turkey along with the stock market, in response to Big Ben defending his yen for a powerful currency [albeit gently]. The NZ$ retreated in the face of Big Ben's thrust. The Aztecs are going positively ape and you are now over a third of the way to $2,000 an ounce. Only a hop and a bound and you're half way. And there isn't even a hint of panic around, though obviously there are a LOT of people heading for the hills already, in preparation for the second coming and The Rapture, clutching their little totems, chanting incantations and whooping as they go. I am between a rock and a hard place. I cannot sit still, want to head for the hills, but cannot possibly join a bunch of atavistic naked bum Planet of the Apes types. While I do have furry arms with prehensile fingers, of distinctly gibbon-like form, I can walk on my hind legs for hours and rarely drop onto my knuckles. I refuse to act like common chimpoids, leaping about with shiny baubles they found in a creek bed. Mqurice PS: I often wear trousers too, and even a hat on a sunny day, which gives me a distinctly sartorial air, concealing my more biological attributes.