Reporter in a 1996 and as editor of the san antonio press, we hired russell and he came to san antonio and had a wonderful three or four year run as reporter here. Met his wife and got married in san antonio, worked in our capital in austin for a while before moving onto the major leagues in the bigtime. He has written a terrific book about cracking, the boom. Ive seen a few books and none of them catch my attention until the sun. I want to get you talking publicly about it. I know a lot of people are passionate about cracking because right in our backyard is the eagle for a shale plant, so people on all sides of the issue will have to contribute to the conversation. We are being filled by cspan. When you get to the q a, someone in the audience will move around with the acrophobia and ill ask you to hold the question until you have a microphone in front of you. If people feel we are going on too long between the two of us and he just cant wait to ask your question, start raising your a