Stan,
In response to your questions today:

1. Research Group--while we do use them for options modeling and sanity checks, we employ two of their quant-jocks directly on NNG payroll (Sean Bolks being the lead). As long as we keep these two, we could get by without them all together.

2. Government Affairs--we only use one individual out of the Corporate Staff (Pat Shortridge). Other than that, they provide no value.

3. Aviation--will be used be my staff only is cost justified versus commercial (coach) flights.

4. Strategic Sourcing--TAP does provide a cost effective service. We could do without it, but I doubt we'd save money doing it ourselves.

Dan