 Well, good morning and welcome to the 25th RIC. This is a pleasure to be here to speak with over 3,000 people living in 33 countries, and I guess that includes the United States, right, where one in 33 that were included in that. And it's a particular pleasure to be here this year because it's the first year to welcome Chairman McFarland to the Commission, her first RIC. She's brought seismic changes to the leadership of the agency. I'm the first person to use that joke, so I'm quite confident in that. You know, speaking of jokes, I mean, I've been talking to people for the last day and they've been saying, well, you know, the boys were said really high, Commissioner Sidenick and Commissioner Apostolakis really were. The problem is, you know, because of the Sunshine Act, I didn't know this was supposed to be a humorous occasion. And so I'm rather ill-prepared for this. So at the end of the list, there was a lot of late days, so I didn't have time to really think of anything. So this morning I got onto the NRC computer and, you know, because Commissioner Sidenick had, you know, sort of covered the proton and neutron. I was looking for another complimentary joke, so I went to the elementary particle humor page on the internet, but the NRC computer blocked it because it was a cyber threat, so I couldn't hit. So, you know, and so I don't, so the humor is probably going to be lacking in my, and because I didn't get the memo, I also don't think that either, you know, my speech is probably kind of down here compared to this. But anyway, it's still a pleasure to be here. And I wanted to thank, you know, Eric and Brian and your staffs for the work you've done to put this together. You've done this several years in a row. You've done a fantastic job. I also want to recognize the Protocol Office, the Office of the National Programs, whose staffs have been very active in all this. There's many other volunteers as well that have participated in putting making this conference a success. And I also want to thank the people who are doing the captioning for today because, you know, we're webcasting this, there is captioning, and they don't have my written speech because I actually didn't know what I was going to say this morning, so there's no speech to give them. I'm making a lot of this up as I go, although I do have some things written down and I'm not going to completely wing it. But, you know, I wish I were more like, you know, Commissioner Ossendorf who speaks after me because we were talking to Eric yesterday about today and Ossendorf mentioned that his speech is 24 minutes long. And I said, really? You know that? Well, before I forget, I also want to thank my staff. My staff has worked very hard over the last year and they're sitting here, I think they're all here. I don't see all of them, but Patti, Patti, Rebecca, Molly, Rene, Rene who's new, welcome Rene. And where's Vic? I know we also have Vic. Now I know you were thinking, what is it, all female staff? No, you have to have at least one guy on the staff because if I don't have Vic then there's no one else who can change the water bottle on the water cooler. At least without making me feel guilty about it. Yes, I know Molly, I've seen you do it. But it's just not pretty to watch. On a more serious note, you know, every year in the Rick there's always this sort of very sweet because you know that there will always be people who are with us today that they won't be with us next year because we're reaching this point in our ages where a lot of people retire. So I know there will be several people who either have or are thinking about retiring or are likely to retire in the very near future and we're going to miss you. Hopefully you'll come back and see us again if you don't come back next year, but thank you for your service and thank you for everything you've done for your country. So thank you very much.