I would like to thank you all for the interaction in which you’ve allowed me to participate through this blog.  Your insights and comments are incredibly informative and helpful.  I realize this is a moment when you were probably hoping for loads of communications from me with regard to many of the current events that are transpiring around certain Colony investments. As many of you may know,  we recently filed a registration statement for a public offering on Colony Financial, Inc., and as a result we are in a legal “quiet period” and I have been bound, gagged, and ordered to not communicate in a public forum during this time.  It has been an amazing few weeks and I promise to share many details of my reactions once I’m free to speak again.  Thanks for your understanding.

Tom

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