making to raise the profile of independent bookstores. what james patterson has done has supercharged that in a very important way i think. anything else collects any other questions? yes. >> i don't have a question but my first thought was i felt like a month. i felt that analogy doesn't have to be everything. it would be a help. doesn't have to be everything but it would be a help. i found through the use of technology that we use in our chapter that other shops around the country have actually benefited as well. they don't just buy from us through our outreach but because we are reaching out others see

what we are doing so they go out to other bookshelves and purchase. so what we you can open up. >> yeah i would agree with that. before we go to the announcement of the next round just a couple of questions that i think some people have asked me and i just wanted to ask you as well. this is a question about the next round of grants. if you have received the grant does that mean you can't apply again? not that i'm sounding greedy or anything. >> now, it doesn't. we are going to evaluating whatever second grants on the basis of what people want. >> because i love the bookmobile idea. [laughter] >> that would be a good one.

>> shall we push the button so we can show at? is going to show up on the screens as to the next round. [applause] >> once again i don't know i would necessarily use the word winners. i would say doers. they are doing something for themselves and i'm here to assist if i can. >> this is great. we thank all of you for coming and if you are on that list to your checks are available right in the back. mr. patterson will be there signing them for you. [laughter] in any case thank you well and mr. patterson i want to thank you too.

[applause] [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> so i tell the story about how i, who is every aspect of whose identity is in one way or another a threat to israel.

my gender is male. my religion is muslim. my citizenship is american but by nationality is iranian. my ethnicity is persian. my culture's middle eastern. everything about made sense off all the warning signals for israel and so the experience of an iranian american single man trying to get through ben gurion airport in the 21st century is a reminder to everyone that despite the way that globalization has brought us closer and has diminished the boundaries that separate us as nations, as ethnicities come as people as cultures, despite all of that all you have got to do is spend a few minutes trying to get through ben gurion airport to remember that those divisions, those things that separate us are still very much alive.

>> we have tens of millions of people who live right near coasts to give you one example and so what is happening right now in the debate in the united states? there are giant industries that pollute and the consequence is they make