I have had no formal discussions with Maurice. Everyone is acutely aware that Trent has a get-out clause for 2007 and that's where the speculation has come from.

I've had discussions with people who want to know the rules, but no formal requests have been made yet. There could well be a program next year. That decision won't be made until May.

It will take another week to unfold. I don't want to drag it out but there's things to consider. There's family issues, there's children.

As we moved through December, as everyone is acutely aware, the market changed fairly dramatically.

While discussions continue with the district, we have not received any formal proposals and therefore would not have anything to sign off on.

Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking.", "...freedom is difficult to understand because it isn't a '(ital) presence' but an '(ital) absence'�an absence of governmental constraint. People who are unfamiliar with severe political constraints�severe enough to make them aware that they have lost their freedom�often don't know what freedom is and on what it depends.