Announcement Regarding Occidental Institute Today I write to you with mixed feelings. We here at OIRF have passed through another one of those crossroads in time that change our pathway into the future forever. This transition has been a long time in the making but has been hurried to a conclusion after external but inalterable changes to our commercial distributorship contracts representing the loss of our major financial fund-raising ability. Within a few short weeks OIRF would have celebrated 46 years of continuous operation – not bad for