our friend paul grogan who's not here is wrapping with all the work he did to help organize the opportunity agenda to wrap our city's biggest funders around or those pipelines. and then that urban mechanics whether you're building that pipeline for a new bostonian -- and, you know who was the first mayor to build a new bostonian whole service sector, whether you're building an innovation district or lining up your ladder, and who remembers the mayor's don't borrow trouble campaign? we escaped a huge amount of foreclosure because we built the home ownership ladders, you know? we are doing it here. and young, talented students, you're sending us more of them, are the new urban mechanics. some of you may be in the audience today, but that energy, that tall element, that -- talent, that brains around energizing and engineering a community's capability to lift people. that's what we've got going on in this city. that's why this room is full. >> absolutely. >> i ask the development question because i feel compelled to ask a news-oriented question, i don't know why. [laughter] >> bob, can i say on