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.

We expect strong growth into next year.

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

atrociously bad behavior from a company with a history of atrociously bad behavior.

Tech people like to stick to their knitting, and they measure their accomplishments by the growth of their company. Now the tech community is popping up and saying, 'We do need to be involved in our surroundings.'

He's not getting the kind of diversification he thinks because they're all in large company growth, ... If he held small company funds or value funds or foreign, he'd have wider diversification, and far lower risk.