more details in the taken question, but i took very seriously your charge to me when i accepted tdirector generl commission to try to improve the outreach to the hispanic and other minority communities to make sure that they understood what opportunities were available to them at the state department. whether it was the foreign service or civil service and to expand the information they had and theirability to ask questions and to be informed and participate with us. i share with you a desire to see a better than 5% ratio for the hispanics in the foreign service and a 4.9 in the civil service. but i can tell you the recruitment that we have undertaken. in the past year, we have among the people who have taken the foreign service test we had an increase of 82% among hispanics. from those that passed the test having taken it, 172% increase by hispanics, and for the hiring, a 43% increase, those statistics, if we can maintain them and i certainly think that my successor will be committed to improve on what we started. i would like to share another statistic with the committee, because the other par