they re solid. vehicle sales have been very strong. i m suspicious of the number. these numbers don t go in a straight line, they re affected by seasonal patterns and we had warm winter weather so that may be messing with the data. i m not reading too much into the weakness particularly retail. that isn t consistent with everything else we know. when you look at everything else, everything else on the same track, manufacturing up, health care sector up, everything else up, and the other one that caught my eye, the public sector for the first time we didn t see a dip, we didn t see any ads, but we saw a flatline and what does that tell us? well,s that a silver lining. obviously a disappointing report. hoping for more. but the silver lining is that the lay-offs, the large lay-offs we ve been getting in the state and local government sector appear to be winding down. i don t think they re over. i think we ve got more lay-offs to go, particularly local government, property tax revenues