 On December 29th, the New York Times published a beautiful article, one that I enjoyed very much, that said, quote, companies have flocked to San Antonio, making an economic center rivaling Houston and Dallas. Houston and Dallas, the article went on to say, have seen their development gradually slow, and the jobs those cities have added have tended to be lower paying. And here's the part that I'm most proud of. By contrast, San Antonio has attracted high wage jobs capitalizing on its booming medical research industry. Let me tell you about one gentleman who has one of those high wage jobs. His name is Jason Seetz. He's the managing director of Techstar's cloud competition in San Antonio to launch the next fantastic cloud computing companies. Jason came to San Antonio in 2008 when his company Slice Host was acquired by Rackspace. Now, this guy is a rock star in the technology industry. He helped to create what is known as OpenStack, which is essentially the analogous windows to cloud computing, a dominant operating system that is fundamental to Rackspace and its tremendous growth and the success of cloud computing generally. The thing is that Jason could have chosen to leave San Antonio to go somewhere else, but he chose to stay here. He lives downtown. He is right in the middle of Geekdom and managing Techstar's cloud. He's a success story not only in his own ride, but a success story also for San Antonio. It's Jason and others like that that we want to attract to our city. But just as importantly, it's folks like Jason that are sitting in our schools today that are studying and dreaming and wanting to become the entrepreneurs of the future. And that's what our economic development strategy and the way that we go forward must be based on. The good news is that we have two big opportunities in 2012 to make a real difference and make this year a year of ascendance.