mr. geller. thank you. and now as you heard mr.on talking about a lot of things in the gaming industry. he thinks we can see gaming back to '07 levels next year which, like i said, i haven't heard anything going back to that, specifically, housing prices. he also said a lot of convention bookings were back to where he was, precrisis. what are you seeing on that front? >> well, i don't -- we're in a different business to sheldon. sheldon certainly has made the mold and broken the -- developed the paradigm issue. but for us, we're seeing -- it's not universal. we're seeing very good signs. the meetings business certainly is coming back. for example, this year, our business amongst our portfolio of hotels, we are double the amount of business for this book -- from the beginning of the year until now for this year than last year. so that's an amazing statistic. we're seeing generally this throughout our portfolio. and i think when we oar what i can say is when i look around at our colleagues, the pricing levels generally consumer confi