<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.4611.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Wim: I have experienced a slow down for = several months now. Definitely slower than last year.  People are not = rescheduling as quickly as before, and the phone is a lot quieter.  I think the = whole economy is slowing down, and energy prices here in California have got a = lot of us worried. Patrick</FONT></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT face=arial,helvetica><FONT size=2> </BLOCKQUOTE></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>