first, christine kerth who is here today. tine spent 19 years in public service including five years here at the federal communications commission. she has deep knowledge of telecommunications issues and she has rendered excellent service on the capital hill and here at the fcc. she's also just frankly a personal friend and so christine, i want to say thank you for being such a great co-worker all these many years. we wish you well as you enter into the private sector whatever the future holds for you will be bright, i'm sure. and we appreciate, again your service to the fcc. [ applause ] as secondly i had the privilege on tuesday of speaking at the ng 911 institutes award gala. one of the people who was awarded the government leader award was our own david firth. david, to those of you on this dias and on the commission, he's an expert on everything public safety, i can tell you without looking at his notes how any public safety system is structured, what any legal issues are he's really the gem of our public safety bureau he