Or. We welcome you here on behalf of the Virginia Foundation for the humanities, and they are the producers of the virginia festival of the book. And we really greatly appreciate the hard work they go into to present these gatherings. This is my cell phone. And i am checking it right now [laughter] to make sure that it is silenced. And if you will do the same, we will avoid any interruptions. We want to thank our sponsors in addition to the festival of the book, amnesty international, the local group here is one of the sponsors and the Charlottesville Center for peace and justice is another