RE:C'Mon Jeff......Pick up that phone....It's not "out of his hands" cut the divi and Bir can work on the small debt left and put themselves in a reasonable position going forward. Any merger or sale to another company insures the divi is gone anyway. I've said for over a year when I left that the divi was nuts and Jeff's ego got in the way of good business practice given an NG price that they couldn't see coming. if they didn't have it they would likely be debt free and waiting for sunnier days in NG. Not only that they may have had a little cash to buy back some stock.