<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16788" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>1. Congress passed and the president signed -- so it is law and will take place -- a bill called the America's Beautiful National Parks Quarter Dollar Act of 2008. This 5 quarters per year program will start with the 2010 date and continue for 11 years total. Coins will be issued "in the order in which each selected site was first established as a national site." Thus, no doubt, the first of these quarters will show something Yellowstone-ish. Will there be any sort of public input -- I have no idea.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>2. Per an article in the January 2009 issue of _Geology_ regarding the uplift and 'quakes in long Valley, California, "...we are able to unambiguously determine that magma is the cause of unrest." So maybe if we're lucky, (this is a joke) both Long Valley and Yellowstone will blow up and end the world's problems at the same time.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Scott Bryan</DIV></FONT><BR><BR><BR><DIV CLASS="aol_ad_footer" ID="cf24c69d38a3b9fb3275655ce01e9842"><FONT style="color: black; font: normal 10pt ARIAL, SAN-SERIF;"><HR style="MARGIN-TOP: 10px"><b>A Good Credit Score is 700 or Above. <a href="http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100000075x1215855013x1201028747/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072%26hmpgID=62%26bcd=DecemailfooterNO62"> See yours in just 2 easy steps!</a></b></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>