Okay. First, thanks for having me. Yess the last five years one of the largest shareholders of williams. Most of the last two years was on the board and resigned in late june along with five other quality directors. Six resigned in total. A different view of the management, specifically the ceo and ability of the six directors who stayed to assist and hold that ceo accountable. In some id say very much a 1970s board where theres six directors whose qualifications i question. Gotten on beal loyal and supportive of the ceo, whose record failed to meet expectations. We went through a long engagement around strategic initiatives, on and off again deal with Energy Transfer. That deal did not happen. Then the board had to figure who was the right leader . The right question for a board to ask. There were six very accomplished directors including the only sitting ceo, the chair of the head of the safety committee, the head of the Strategic Review committee and two largest shareholders who fel
Jonathan no time to enjoy that in the markets this morning because it is deep red across equity markets. Equity markets down in europe. 1. 36 on the ftse 100 with a miners leading losses. S p 500 futures negative. Switch of the board to japan. Dollaryen, down by. 9 . Three years and a day since the kuroda experiment began. Yields in germany. You have to go to two decimal places just to get one. To thesis points days where yields were around five basis points. Wti down to 35. 64. What is happening in the markets. Stephanie i want to give you a quick headline crossing twitter. Really getting big and the content game, far fiat beyond 140 characters. They will be streaming thursday night games. Is this the kind of business that yahoo wanted to be in . David facebook was in discussions with this and they decided not to do it. Stephanie yahoo wanted to be in this and but for is a meyer is using a different strategy, needs to up their game, and they are trying to do it on the field thursday n