FK: Okay, first things first: There's a lot of rumors out there regarding
the demise of Balthaser. What's the story? Did Balthaser layoff? How many? Are you going out of business?
NB: Well, you don't waste any time cutting to the chase. Yes. No comment. No.
FK: So is that "Yes, you laid off", "No comment on how many." and "No,
you're not going out of business?"
NB: That's right. Basically, Balthaser like many other companies out there
is feeling the pain of the market and in particular the punishment of dot
coms. In order to stay on plan, we had to unfortunately cut some of our most
talented and valued staff. Does this mean we are out of business or in
danger of going out of business? No. We continue to operate and in fact will
be announcing some things here shortly that are quite promising.