Im director of the wisconsin book festival i want to thank all of you for coming out this morning to celebrate 15th anniversary of the wisconsin book festival. Yeah go ahead. [applause] im incredibly proud to be the director at this moment. The book festival is livelier than it has ever been having expanded into year round eastbound traffics were getting more and more people involved that faces in this room that i know are wonderful that faces in the room that i dont know, are exactly as wonderful. I hope you leave this and invite ag friend to the next hours or days or even into november and january of next year. And this truly has been a tran sending year for us we will definitely end the year with the most people weve seen in wisconsin book festival events in our entire history and i couldntt be happier about tha. I want to take this time to thank Madison Public Library they provide staff time works really hard for me especially overer this and theyre here rit now behind the scenes.