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I want to be clear. You brought up a really good point. We talk a lot about Chapman and Cooper; we talk a lot about Pat Mayse and other things. The question is, we don't know exactly how we would get the water to Irving. We know ultimately it needs to get to our pipeline, and ultimately it gets to Lake Lewisville. There are a couple of options we're looking at, and we'll be sharing that with your City of Paris staff; there are no secrets. Within the bounds of right of way discussions and dealing with individual property owners, but the big picture is not going to be a secret. There are a couple of options; they make difference sense for different reasons and we have to evaluate those. Again, the question that I would humbly ask the group, is: does it make sense for Paris, and under what terms and conditions? That kind of sums up what we've been talking about in our discussions. And I want to be clear: we have to be respectful of the needs of the citizens of Paris and the leaders of Paris, and we will do so. We will be here if you need us at these meetings. We'll provide the support you need. We're about two weeks out from having a web site up that when your citizens want to look up some of this information, we can have it on the web and let them do so. You know something? Again, we learned a lot of lessons with Cooper in the drought. From a water supply perspective, the lake performed the way it was supposed to. Basically, it provided water until the drought ended; then it filled back up. It didn't provide water ... it provided an environment ... and we paid for it. I mean, we paid for our part of it, and all that, but when you look at a stewardship angle, if there was a better way to be a steward of the lake, multiple lakes, by managing our water differently ... That's one of the reasons we are so interested in Pat Mayse and some of these other locations. We don't want to drain Cooper Lake. you know, that's not the best way. I mean, the bottom of the lake is not the best thing to be putting into your pipeline. We want to be managing that very efficiently and do the right thing, OK? So there's a part of that that goes into this as well. A diverse water supply makes sense for our citizens for a number of reasons. Again, I want to say we learned a lot of lessons, and we're trying to carry that forward. That's why I want to be very upfront about that, that how Cooper Lake went was a function of a number of things, but that is one of the things we're trying to avoid as much as possible. I don't know how other people, any other agency or person may have said this, or stated it, but it's got to work for us, and it's got to work for Paris. And we'll be respectful of that. Question: In terms of bringing water from Oklahoma to Pat Mayse, a problem we already have is everything over 451 feet just goes right out the valve. Would you address that? Jim Cline: All that is still up in the air, so I want to be very circumspect about that one. Once things filter out, we can sit down and have a long talk about that. We want to know under what conditions it would make sense. It may not make sense, but just take any other facility in the world. It might make more sense for the pipeline to go by, rather than pumping water into a lake. You know, it may make more sense to not dump it into Chapman; it may be better to bring it into a pipeline. And that's what may make the most sense; we don't know. Let me be very hypothetical, but if that would be viewed as a negative impact and wasteful, I don't want my water rolling over your dam. If I'm paying to pump it, and paying dearly for it, I really don't want it to go down the river, OK? So I'm going to be a little smarter than that, than to waste it over the dam. But yes, there are a number of different ways it could work, a number of different