They have a meeting yearly. I believe it is in January.....once audited accounts are completed since they are the basis for the dividend calculation. Are they guaranteed? No but provided the JV doesn't start to lose money and that erodes the retained earnings it is highly likely since they declared dividends the past two years. However, the Retained Earnings that has been accumulated will be distributed to both SD and RFC at some point. They have declared dividends the past two years and again, I think this year's high profits is the primary reason why this Board paid the loan back...in order to get their 51% of the dividends per share once they are declared. They didn't seem to care about the security or IP at all ....they do know that dividends will be declared in January so they want to have this loan paid back by the end of the month.