i will point out the straight line, the cbo ustar measure is one that gets used a lot in no small part really easy to point and click and get to it. it is than the rest. it's also far less noisy than -- sorry -- is also far less nosy than earlier cbo measures. the reason is that they switched a bit ago to something they call the -- that they referred to now as the noncyclalrate, which whai believe it was in 2005 q4, they decide, this looks like full employment to us, so they assume that going forward and back they estimate the noncyclical unemployment rate holding demographics which in this case race constant.ti, that's why you get that kind of a flat line. ok, now turning to more -- i'm going to buzz through this stuff. the idea of the rising tide lifts some votes more than others as adam alluded to. we now have the lowest black/ white unemployment gap on record. this separates it out for men and women based on work that kesner and others including dave did at the federal reserve. you see a fairly clear cyclical pattern although not much2000's. i think that has a lot to do wihe full e