please help me welcome tom shroder. [applause] >> thanks for coming out today on such a gorgeous day. i have to say in advance that i haven't had a chance to prepare as i usually do for these talks because i spent the last couple weeks in a very scary situation. my son who is becoming a scuba diving instructor got an infection on his elbow and called up and said what should i do? are set if it doesn't get better go to the urgent care place. so we go to the urgent care place the next day and they give him some antibiotics. he wakes up and it blows up to the size of a balloon. he goes to the emergency room in south florida and they admit him and suddenly they are telling us he has merce, the antibiotic resistance bug. in these situations these infections can cascade very quickly. the term life threatening was thrown around. so i just remembered lying awake in fear, having that palpable sense of fear occupying my body. i was so afraid and i was picking about these peopthinkin lost their loved ones on the deepwater horizon

tom shroder will be signing books after this presentation and his book is on sale at barnes and noble tom schroeder -- tom shroder has been writer and editor for many years. he was at washington post magazine which won 2008-2010 pulitzer prize for feature writing. in addition to be an auditor and editor he is one of the foremost editors of humor in the country. he has edited humor columns john barry and launched the syndicated comic strip cul-de-sac by richard thompson. his latest book with captain john konrad received upstanding reviews, "fire on the horizon: the untold story of the gulf oil disaster" published by harper collins this spring. in april of 2010 we watched