My initial reaction to the Mona Vie announcement was "you've got to be kidding! We waited for the Wal Mart of the internet and now they want us to sell berry juice from the Amazon." As you might expect, Sally's reaction was more wait and see, and I calmed down pretty quickly, as we both truly believe in Orrin, Chris and all of our leaders. After reading Orrin's updates and his and Chris's blog; which I would encourage everyone to read; I would offer these thoughts, based on 30 years of practicing law and 14 months of TEAM system: 1. Paraphrasing Orrin's update #1; You don't build new cities in the middle of the battle, because it costs money that you need in order to continue the fight; and the cities will get blown up anyway. You feed the troops, defeat the enemy, then build the dream city. Obviously and frustratingly for all of us, Orrin is still in the legal battle with Quixtar, and as you would expect, has thought this through thoroughly and knows exactly what he is doing. 2. Orrin's comments on the blog reinforced the vision that we all share of Wal Mart priced products delivered to your door. 'We have and will do our long term plan and we will do it much quicker than Dell, Amazon, Wal Mart. This is what happens when a company injoins the leaders and does not allow any talk - expectations can get out of timing - but they are coming.' At the risk of being too lengthy I would offer a few thoughts on the state of the law regarding 'covenants not to compete." Non compete clauses in contracts have been traditionally interpreted strictly, in favor of competition. In the past for a non-compete clause to be effective it had to have not only a time limitation, but a reasonable geographic limitation (i.e. salesman cannot sell this or a similar product for a period of 2 years, within a 30 mile radius of current business). The purpose was to prevent an employee (salesman) from taking its (the company's) customer list (community) to a competitor, damaging or destroying the company's business. The theory was the company owned the customer list (community) because they had paid the employee (salesman) to develop it for them. The courts had to balance the company's property rights in the customer list along with trade secrets, insider information, operating systems with the salesman's (employee) right to makie a living and participate in the free enterprise system. The internet changed everything in this area of the law, by removing geographic boundaries. Additionally, if you insert IBO for employee and TEAM approach and training system for operating system, you can see where our case is far more complicated, than it might first appear. While I don't agree with the court's decision, I can appreciate that it is not an easy one. Having said all that, I would like to say to Judge Sullivan, on behalf of all my teammates, and most especially, Orrin Woodward, it's time; "Let my people go." What I really appreciate is Orrin's continued faith in the judicial system, in the face of decisions that none of us agree with. It is easy to praise the system when you are winning, and that's the only time I've ever had clients praise it. To praise and defend the system when things aren't going your way is much more difficult, and a true sign of character and integrity. Orrin is an incredible leader and we will follow him wherever the journey takes us. Gary & Sally Breier