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Brian, I'll turn it over to you. We're going to have a, have you say a few words. We'll have an

introduction, and then we'll turn it over to some questions that we've already gotten in.

And we're getting more questions as you were talking, Nicole, including a question about the

so-called rage against the war machine

demonstration in D.C. on February 19th, I do want to talk about that, and I'm going to talk about that

today. The items that we're going to address today, there's more information because there's more

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