Hi Don,

I know in due time Lowell will respond to your message, but from someone who has know him for a few years I really take exception to your post.

I'd like to suggest that you run a search on the Google Seach Engine and use "Lowell Whiteside" and I'm sure you can learn about his career, which is something I'm sure he takes pride in, but I do as well.

His presence here is very valuable to we who wish to learn. Having one of several scientific points of view adds a great deal to this board for which I appreciate tremendously and I'm quite certain I am not alone in that.

I am sincerely saddened that you always seem to find the negative in remarking to so many posters on several boards. There are so many good things that come about with useful discussions and it would be my greatest hope that you and others would take the time to find appreciation of them. But, I am a realist and I do know some things can never change nor some individuals either.

Somewhere on this little blue planet that circles the Sun another large/great earthquake is about to deliver grievous sadness upon some people and those who are here to share and to learn in the hopes of doing something about this condition need all the help they can get. Remember, its not for us, its for them, tomorrows earthquake victims and the voices in the wind of those who will not have received a warning.

The road to success is a long and arduous one, be not the boulder in the road, but the one who fixes the pot holes to make the journey smoother.

Petra