I am very pleased to welcome you to this 15th Annual General Meeting. I hope you enjoy the meeting and the evening.  Although we like to keep these meetings friendly and relaxed there is however, formal business that we must attend to.

March 15th in the Roman calendar is called the ides of March. Julius Caesar was assassinated on this day in 44 B.C. on his way to the Theatre of Pompey, after he had been warned that harm would come to him. Hence the Shakespearean warning: Beware the Ides of March.