AGORACOM, allow me to make slight correction to my previous post/question.The fifth line down should read "loaning out the SHARES to the shorts"---not the SHATES. My proof reading got a tad shoddy this AM,...Bill..... P.S, I will however, be more than willing to loan my SHATES to those shorts. I don't care for them ( neither the shates nor the shorts) any way.