from across for all of you taking time to welcoming me here today. i'm not going to give a long speech but do have three basic messages i want to convey. the first is that i don't know how astute a consumer of information i am but i sure do rely on it. and those who come and brief me every single morning do an extraordinary job. i will say that only flaw generally in what's called the pdb is that when jim provides it, he leaves paper clips all over my office. they are in the couch, in the floor, he's shuffling paper and so because i knew i was coming over here one of the things i