thank you, dean townshend, for your leadership and support. dr. brzezinski, mr. hadley, it's my pleasure to host you in my home institution but i know i see you in washington and all these other places, and i know that for some of you this may be actually the first place, first time to come to maryland. so welcome, and would really appreciate you taking the time to join us. i'm going to go ahead and start asking questions, but before, i wanted to explain why you're surrounded such beautiful art. if you notice, and dr. brzezinski being married to a wonderful artist yourself, you appreciate that a little bit, if you see, we have a sculptor and we have a painting. these are products of an annual competition we have which is called the sadat art for peace program. it is in conjunction with our outstanding our department. and usually the best painting of the best sculpture, these are the winners from 2011. let me tell you, the best way for sculpture is jesse barrows, for that your horn, giving the people of the voices in the arab awakening. and the painting is for a p