Subject: File No. S7-08-09
From: Thomas W Van Slack
Affiliation: Senior Director of Software Engineering Quality

May 4, 2009

I think that the uptick rule Must be restored to help pretect the general investor. I have heard Senator Ted Kuafman and agree with his analysis that we need both the uptick rule and that the person should OWN the stock they are shorting. This would greatly slow down the agressive shorting of stock in down markets.