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ByloCellhi

11/10/06 11:28 AM

#20477 RE: RoseBowl #20474

RoseBowl

Kelly hope you are well. IMHO - the company needs a strong financial person to get the company out of this financial situation.

Kimberly Biggs I am sure is a nice young lady but my guess a bookkeeper and was over her head. Dave Rogers ex CFO no longer there right?

Who is there to do cost analysis, budgets, what if analysis to keep the costs under control and determine break even, etc etc? You know the blocking and tackling needed to run a profitable company or get one there...

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sbc357

11/10/06 12:44 PM

#20481 RE: RoseBowl #20474

RoseBowl;
"I'm not happy with how they treated all of us as shareholders. Complete silence for months, and many of you have told me your repeated inquiries to management have not been returned."
I have to agree a tad with you here and disagree with you even more. I do not like that many shareholders tried to have conversations with the company for months when they were laying low and licking their wounds from having lost the CEO. We certainly would have liked some communication in that time, even if it was that they were rather lost, looking for some direction, running an increasing burdensome debt situation, and struggling with whether or not the deal they had been looking into was going to gor through. That again, left us shareholders with a not-so-pleasant taste of distrust in our mouths. I also tried to have some phone communication with them a time or two, to only have unreturned phone calls.

However, I do have to say that they have been extremely available as of late, once the proxy issue was stated and I started calling again. I do believe that I was calling for a different person months ago than who I call now. Do not know if it is a difference in the people I was trying to contact or if it is a pleasant change in company policy, but I have to say, I am pleasantly impacted by the change to open communications. So, your remarks about the company being unavailable, at this time, are not accurate.

Maybe this is the time for you to pick up the phone and have a few conversations with a few of your old associates. Maybe???

We would love to hear what you guys hash out!!!!!
We would love to hear that an agreed understanding of what has transpired is worked out, to all parties satisfaction, and that a focused, coordinated, cooperative effort can be supported so this company can shine.
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TheEGGMAN

11/10/06 1:05 PM

#20484 RE: RoseBowl #20474

RB: Good assessment. I appreciate now your conflicted position and your disclosure of such. Picking up that you "want" to vote no while "needing" to vote yes I think pretty much summarizes the position of most here. Whether we debate the merits of what has been done or what should have been done--I don't necessarily think it is germaine to this proxy. Sure, I STILL would like to know more of this eight figure offer and how the football was fumbled, but as you stated, that can be for another day.

True, they're asking for our trust, but unless we are willing to unseat current management and move a different direction, we are in essence sending "no" votes as an expression of dissent without a plan. In other words, it may make us feel much better to vote "no" but I believe it doesn't serve any business purpose in light of their apparent inability to ship orders or acquire PO financing. Worse, the company being out of shares is sure to cause the duchess loan to go into default spiraling the company into a share hemmorrage (assuming they amend the proxy for less A/S) the likes of which we have never seen. And of course, it will be "our fault" according to management, because we didn't give them what they asked for.

Therefore, I don't love it, but we just gotta vote 'yes'.
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Ellington

11/13/06 6:49 PM

#20510 RE: RoseBowl #20474

We could send Kelly unmarked proxies.<eom>