I wish i could stay longer, but my role is very brief. Im bill miller and developed to festival and writing programs here at george mason. [applause] thank you. I was going to say that youve arrived at fault for the book whether you intended to or not. If your array was accidental because you were interested in neil gaiman, this is we started the festival wednesday. We are having a great time. We dont end until sunday. Theres programs in the floppy. With a few big ones up if youre interested in other events. In this german sunday. [applause] following me to the podium will be the mayor of fairfax city, race Silverthorne Houle introduced a nice case. We are going to keep things to a minimum and shift to formality staff. Hes going to read, take questions from cars that some of you filled out an answer those and then read again. Then we would do the presentation and then he will be done. Bookstore will be open in the lobby if you havent had a chance to buy one of the present looks. So her