at the earnings that came out today and also the outlook going-forward, what's the issue here for malwart, is it specific to walmart or something that h to do with the economy and what's going on in washington? >> well, i mean the old joke as mary thompson said, while retail is detail, there are only two problems in the quarter, revenues and expenses. when you look at the detail, there are lots of moving pieces, there were bright spots in the report, and there were challenges in the report. among the bright spots in the report was the expense leverage at walmart.us. on the other side, the sales were light. they were down 1.4%. that was a bit of a disappointment certainly below our expectations of negative 5/10 of a point. there are lots of other issues going on in international, you have much higher en the compy workin obviously fcpa was larger than expected. that's going to continue for an undetermined period of time. there are other corporate expenses that were also cutting into profits, yet there are other areas that are positive. there are lots and puts and takes on walmart as you wou