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louis

10/19/04 10:45 PM

#28900 RE: ElderWolf #28896

Elderwolf,

I agree wholeheartedly. Aliza is just reporting the news that she can verify. Its up to our CEO/IR Brad Ketch to do something so that their will be news to report. No comment or not returning a phone call or email suggests that Brad has nothing positive to say.

On another note, I still think the Cards will win the next 2 games. Then again, I invested in NVEI.

Louis
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WHP03

10/20/04 2:01 AM

#28905 RE: ElderWolf #28896

Elder - excellent point by point response. It blows me away that Brad routinely pushes away the opportunity for "free positive press". It blows me away that NVI (Brad) or ANI or any NVI shareholder would be shocked that NVI is getting bad press when the company is unwilling to proactively nuture relationships with the mainstream media. I've not touched a company in the last 20 years that has been as poorly managed as this company, and I suspect I may not touch another one (personally) in the next 20-25 yrs of my career that is as poorly managed as NVI is. Only Hollywood magic shows have more spoke and mirrors and plot lines that go on and on and one and on....without making a point or satisfying the paying audience.

NVI is a joke, and I regret putting my first dime into this company, and believing in the company so much at one point, and so much in Ray as a matter of fact, that I volunteered to help pay Ray's personal mortgage at one point.... long long long ago. Thank God he never took me up on the offer... clearly I was a sucker for investing in this company to the degree I did, with a heavy influence on comments he made to me and others, and I would have been a complete idiot to have loaned him money personally too. Thank goodness for small favors.

Bill
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cosmoworld7

10/20/04 9:11 AM

#28908 RE: ElderWolf #28896

EW, good response. And I agree with your comments that Brad has a responsibility to respond to such media enquiries since the image of his company is at stake. Heck, he responds to me and I am just an ordinary basher, lol.
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jjz34

10/20/04 12:26 PM

#28913 RE: ElderWolf #28896

Elder I appreciate your position on this Aliza thing(which is taking up far too muchtime considering probably only about 120 people in Portland bothered to read it). We probably would agree on alot of things including our mutual disdain for the cardinals. On this topic, I respectfully disagree. I get calls from reporters from time to time...they are last on my callback list. But I see your point...Brad could use it as a marketing opportunity. That presumes however that Brad is ready, willing and able to let the PBJ dictate the flow of information simply because Aliza needs a story. Neither of us really know what Brad does, and I realize it's pretty easy to flippantly say "nothing" in light of the shareprice. But we don't know and it's hard for me to imagine Brad sees Aliza as a priority. You also just conceded that she told you her article was incomplete because her paper imposes some arbitrary deadline for online stuff, and they need to put something in the paper. Well, that's fine for the PBJ and it's local market of casual readers in Portland. For me, a shareholder in a company she is writing about, I could care less about her deadlines or her paper. You have every right to be frustrated and angry, so does WHP and any other shareholder. I am frustrated too. That does not justify throwing Holy Water on an abysmal article or "daily news brief."