First, thank you very much for the warm welcoming messages, Pandora and elru, you make an old warrior feel right at home. 

And secondly, my sincere thanks to all who voted for my promotion!  I must say that  this is as unexpected as it is welcome; I am truly honored by this!

I thank you also for the invitation to the Chat, although I'm not sure I'll have any opportunity to use it; my life is pretty hectic at the moment.

Pandora, I appreciate you gentle reminder about the policy concerning discussions of sources.  I must apologize for giving the impression that this was on my mind, but I assure you that it wasn't.  I mentioned my difficulties in locating a connection simply to hilite the necessity for me to do research on my own, and find my own sources as best I can. 

(On reading the above, I'm not sure that I'm getting my point across, so here's another tack, an analogy.  Say I want to have some asprin.

One way to seek help is to ask how to find a "source" (dealer) to get it from, another is to ask what "source" (raw material) is best.

The second usage is what I was referencing  in my remarks.  Would it be a violation to discuss the differences between two different (plant) sources for my asprin?