Country. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. I am the owner of politics ambroses with my wife on behalf of the entire staff thank you for coming and braving the cold and the ice. Just a few notes. Knowledge is the big time to turn off your cell phones during the talk. When we get to the q a please step up to the microphone because we are recording the event tonight for our purposes and is the spee into booktv is here. And the staff would appreciate it if you could fold up the chairs where you were seated to leave them against something solid lead somewhere. Now for the feature presentation it makes our job here a little easier when on the day and the author is due to appear the Washington Post style section decides to run a big favorable feature about the person and the new book and that is what happened today for congressman steve israel. If you have not read the piece yet let me summarize. You can read the whole thing. [laughter] with his first attempt a