<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">Relax, my brother, relax. Email is much harsher than voice-to-voice or face-to-face. People just get fed up quick with 8 one-liners sent by the same 3 people, then repeated. You haven't been kicked in the teeth---and yet I understand precisely how you could <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;">feel </SPAN>that way...I love what you brought and wrote about hoisting; it was fun, to the point, and a pleasure. Keep bringing it; damn the torpedoes. </SPAN><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">One thing: if it feels like someone's sniping at you, please don't snipe back. Take several long, deep breaths and rereads before hitting the send key. DAMHIK.</SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span">xoDavid Andersen</SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span"><BR><DIV><DIV>On Sep 3, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Joseph Alkana wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT><BR></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Never ceases to amaze me that people can criticize a subject under discussion and complain that it is running on and yet contribute nothing but that criticism and sarcasm. As though you even have to be involved. This isn't a chat room where only one subject can be in a discussion. Pick what you like to read and are genuinly enthused about and comment on it, or delete the message and move on.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">So far the man's problem on how to do the move hasn't been resolved, or even the best way to approach this move in a rational, safe manner. I thought it would help to have a few ideas in hand before approaching the right company/method for the job. Perhaps in all your years of experience, Jack, and Paul, you'd like to contribute something positive along those lines.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">I tried to contribute something to help stimulate this group's wonderful ability to be creative and possibly help someone out. Is that so wrong? Talk about being censured and squelched. Jack, Paul and others, you remind me of the type of people who sit in business meetings and do nothing but complain when others are proposing ideas to get the juices working and come up with sometimes far out ideas, even if the ideas are not really practical or viable, but in and of themselves promote thought, which, after all, is certainly cheap and yet provides the catalyst for others to bring a working concept to fruition.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"></FONT> </DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">I feel like I've been kicked in the teeth for even venturing my opinions. Last time I'll do that on this prejudiced list. Sheesh.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Joseph Alkana RPT</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></SPAN></DIV></BODY></HTML>