To: Condor who wrote (56412 ) 2/11/2008 5:40:22 PM From: marcos Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 78419 cn.v - neither factor worries me ... they're far too professional to leak anything, labs really are backed up bad, and like ogi says upthread core was sent to labs down south and in Van too, will need to be correlated As for the new property, well they had quite a list already, Ocros was a new property bare months ago, and took first place from Brahma for the nonce ... this is what they do, they're generative explo geos, no point in just shutting everything else down because labs are slow ... labs were never all that fast anyway, especially combined with transport and then digestion of results while composing releases, this stuff takes time and always did, i think maybe expectations have increased while results have slowed, if so they're two trends that will make for a lot of angst ... not for me however, i don't get enough private time in this house to know enough to care about anything beyond teaching a three and a half year old how to play rummy by rules other than her own The whole sector is down hard and stalled, waiting for the first glimmer of confidence to come back ... it will, we'll get a rally this winter/spring, it's early yet, not even Valentine's day ... any single drillbit play could tank/moonshot any day, Condor could be .60 or 3.50 next monday, who knows, but a basket of them smooths things out, at the moment i have ktn.v, gqc.v, cn.v, cpq.v, kxl.v as main pure-explo picks, sticking with them for a while ... chin up lads, always darkest before dawn, muddle on through, bit of England in a foreign field, that sort of thing, thought about typing in a Churchill quote but wife and kid back any minute, so here, pick yer own - google.ca