Clearly today with King County employment growth twice the nation ... we are out of the woods.

We expect strong growth into next year.

It creates a combined company with one million ounces of annual production, low operating costs and near-term growth that should be attractive to all investors in the gold sector.

Forty percent doesn't seem reasonable.

Why are there so many highly educated people? The answer is this area can attract them. Seattle is a nice place to live. For its size, it has a lot of cultural amenities as well as natural amenities, and we're fortunate to have some pretty interesting companies, Boeing and Microsoft being just two of them.

Eventually, airlines have to buy airplanes. They become economically inefficient because of fuel consumption.