Since I won't probably be in 1st thing Monday AM and you seem to be doing the right thing about getting the system working right, I think I should give you a lead on the new politics of the job. I could tell you later Monday, but I think it is best you think about the whole story....

IBST is soon to contract with another of our Southeast Asia customers, NCREE (National Center For Research on Earthquake Engineering ), to come teach them how to do earthquake shake table and structural tests. NCREE is the foremost Taiwan laboratory and is a HUGE MTS customer. Dr. Lin (Lab head) and 2 of his senior research scientists will be going to IBST to train them in doing testing. This will include NCREE manufacturing 2 (TWO) specimens for IBST and delivering to Vietnam to be used as part of the training program. They will be training IBST in all aspects, specimen construction techniques, instrumentation of specimens, data acquisition, and data analysis. Suviet says that the order will be placed by IBST to NCREE in a few months. Both companies will be at the 4 year Seismic World Congress to be held in early Oct in Beijing China. I am pretty sure that no one in sales even knows about this. This is another example of how close the earthquake community is in the entire world. Everyone knows everyone AND they stick together like glue. For Example, NCREE is getting the 493 controller, a LOT of accumulators, pumps, etc that Kajima (Tokyo) is dumping for free from their old seismic system, since they are getting a brand new 494 controller early next year with their new system.