. >> ron shreve, international master. to take questions. one, within your company, is your department seen us a call center or a potential profit center? and secondly, are there written prohibitions in each of your companies that forbid any of the employees in your department from accepting gratuities, gifts, travel, et cetera for many of those trade with? >> i can answer that. we are a cost center. no one engages in any speculative act to be. no one in treasury is paid based on trading performance. we have goals and object is completely outside of any kind of trading act today that would go into any compensation. we do offer a very strict code of corporate conduct, which precludes anybody on the staff accepting, you know, gifts, anything with vendors. it's extremely rigid and we think it is appropriate that way. i know we annoy a lot of banks because we never show up in anything. we don't put their trees. we don't guard the boondoggles, but we like to keep our relationships purely professional. >> i would echo the ibm treasury is a cost ho