Following a long period of uncertainty about whether we would be able to find a local drilling company in Ethiopia capable of working with us I am happy to announce that DES has signed a contract with the firm Geosearch, and that we will begin mobilizing for drilling in the Afar later this month. We expect to start drilling at the Oso Isi site, near Mille, around Feb 20 and will be there for about a month. The science team will begin to assemble in Addis Ababa in about two weeks and everyone is very excited to see the project moving ahead once again. This also bodes very well for staying on target with drilling at the other Ethiopian site at Chew Bahir later in 2014. Once mobilization starts we will post some photos! We are also moving forward with using the local company Ethioder to provide logistics support for the Afar camp.